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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2009 Jan;12(1):86–90. doi: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32831cef8b

Figure 1. A pictorial example of the proposed relationship between the amount of protein ingested per meal and the resultant anabolic response gr1.

Figure 1

(a) Ingestion of 90 g of protein, distributed evenly over 3 meals. (b) Ingestion of 90 g of proteins unevenly distributed throughout the day. Stimulating muscle protein synthesis to a maximal extent during the meals shown in Figure 1A is more likely to provide a greater 24 h protein anabolic response than an unequal protein distribution.