A latest study suggested that overweight middle-aged adults shedding weight eating with a protein-rich diet have more chances to have a better sleep than the ones losing weight eating a normal quantity of proteins.

Wayne Campbell from Purdue University in the US said that generally, the researches take into account the effects sleep has on diet and weight control, but their study has flipped that query asking the effects of shedding weight and diet, particularly the quantity of proteins, on sleep.

In a paper appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Campbell added, “We found that while consuming a lower calorie diet with a higher amount of protein, sleep quality improves for middle-age adults. This sleep quality is better compared to those who lost the same amount of weight while consuming a normal amount of protein”.

The study included 44 overweight or obese participants who ate either a normal-protein or protein-packed weight loss diet. Throughout the study, the participants filled a survey rating their sleep quality every month. The findings indicated that the ones who ate more protein while losing weight reported improved sleep quality post three and four months of following a diet.

Study’s first author Jing Zhou said that short duration of sleep and a compromise in sleep quality often result into metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and untimely death. Zhou mentioned that to know the high prevalence of problems linked to sleep, it’s important to know how alteration in diet and lifestyle can prove helpful in giving you a good sleep.

Furthermore, Campbell said that the research has added sleep quality to the increasing number of positive results of higher-protein consumption while losing weight and the other benefits such as encouraging body fat loss, maintenance of lean body mass and blood pressure improvements.