"Starting your day off with an egg may help curb your appetite better than cereal new research suggests. In a small study it took longer for people who ate eggs for breakfast https to show signs of hunger https than it did for those who had a bowl of readytoeat cereal. Scientists suspect that egg protein may be better at making people feel full longer compared to the protein found in wheat. For people hoping to shed some pounds changing the type of protein in the diet rather than the amount of it is an idea the researchers think deserves more study as a weight loss strategy. This study shows that diets with higher protein quality may enhance satiety leading to better compliance and success of a weight loss diet https researcher Nikhil Dhurandhar PhD says in a news release. He is an associate professor in the department of infection and obesity https at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge La. One large egg has about  calories and it contains about  grams of protein  grams of fat and  milligrams of cholesterol https The research was funded by the American Egg Board and will be presented at theth European Congress on Obesity https in Lyon France. Eggs vs. Cereals In the study researchers tracked  overweight or obese people giving them either a breakfast https containing eggs or cold cereal for one week. Although the breakfasts offered different protein foods the meals themselves were equally matched in terms of calories carbohydrates protein and fat. Its unclear how the eggs were prepared how many were served or what other foods were included in the breakfast meals. On the first and last day of the test week people were given a buffet lunch to eat. On those days researchers measured how hungry httpsfit.webmd.comkidsfoodrmqrmquizhungerwhatisit or full participants felt before and after breakfast and lunch and they recorded how many calories were consumed at the buffet. They also took blood https samples to determine levels of ghrelin a hungerstimulating hormone and PYY a hormone that signals fullness. Participants then got a twoweek break from the research followed by a second test week where they received the other breakfast food not had during the first week. Researchers found that people who had eggs in the morning felt fuller before lunch and they also ate less food from the buffet compared to those who had cereal. Egg eaters also had lower levels of ghrelin and higher amounts of PYY during the three hours between breakfast and lunch. This suggests they felt less hungry and more satisfied between meals. Longterm weight loss trials to compare the manipulation of protein quality without increasing protein quantity should be explored Dhurandhar says. This study will be presented at a medical conference. The findings should be considered preliminary as they have not yet undergone the peer review process in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal."