high-protein diet
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dieta alta en proteínas
- Doctors suggest a high-protein diet to patients recovering from surgery to aid their healing.
- low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet
- popular high-protein diet
- high-protein diet of 5,400 calories
My health was wrecked by that, by those patterns of advice, and going to a high protein diet made a huge, enormous difference to my health.
- My health was wrecked by that, by those patterns of advice, and going to a high protein diet made a huge, enormous difference to my health.
Examples
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My health was wrecked by that, by those patterns of advice, and going to a high protein diet made a huge, enormous difference to my health.
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I'm going to link three studies down below that that definitively show that even high protein diets won't harm your kidneys.
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So by eating a high protein diet, you might get low protein levels in your blood.
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Working out and eating a high-protein diet is not enough.
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However, I have started implementing a healthy and high-protein diet again, which has also helped me get rid of my cold and build up my energy level.
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It's a long discussion, but a relatively low/moderate fat, low starch, high fiber, low sugar, high protein diet can work wonders!
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I see lots of Americans shy away from it as they focus on low-carb, high-protein diets.
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It is a high-protein diet for people seeking profound transformation of themselves or of our paradigm of knowing.
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Many athletes follow a high-protein diet to build muscle and improve their performance.
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A high-protein diet can help individuals manage their weight by promoting feelings of fullness.
Surface Forms
Morphology
high-protein + diet
The meaning 'a diet containing a large proportion of protein' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'high' (large amount) + 'protein' (nutrient) with 'diet' (way of eating). This compositional adjective-noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
High-protein diet is an easy image: a diet with a high amount of protein. Imagine plates full of eggs, meat, and beans that give the body 'building blocks' to 'build muscle' or 'recover', so the phrase means a way of eating to help those goals.