Dangers of High Protein Diets
Dieters have been buying high-protein diets
all across America, Britain and the rest of Europe, over the past several
years. These high protein diet plans promise easy, fast weight loss, but
do they deliver? Answer: No.
Instead of helping weight control, high-protein
diets can be unhealthy, and tests show they are unlikely to lead to long
term weight loss. Indeed, they may actually cause ill-health.
Excess Protein in Diet
It is a fact that most people in this country
are slowly and some cases quickly dying from malnutrition - that's poor
nutrition. They over-feed on high-protein foods at the expense of carbohydrate
foods and this, in turn, leads to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.
Most people in the Western world have an excess of protein (and fatty)
foods - usually in the form of animal protein.
High Protein Diets - Unhealthy
- High-protein foods are likely to be
high in cholesterol and saturated fats - substances that can promote
heart disease and various cancers.
- Weight loss from high-protein diets
comes at first from losing water. However, long-term weight control
means losing fat, a goal that calls for changing eating habits over
time and from taking more exercise.
- On high protein diets people can temporarily
lose large amounts of weight, and can even lower their blood cholesterol,
sugar, and triglycerides, says John McDougall, M.D., but the method
is unhealthy. On a very low-carbohydrate diet, like the Atkins diet,
the body burns fat, and byproducts of this are ketones, which suppress
the appetite and can cause nausea.
- These high-protein diets contain significant
amounts of the very foods, i.e. meats, that the American and British
cancer societies and heart associations tell us contribute to our most
common causes of death and disability. The reason blood cholesterol,
sugar, and triglycerides may be reduced on high protein diets is that
people are eating much less because of their loss of appetite, and sometimes
nausea. In general, weight loss and health benefits are temporary because
the high protein plan is too unpleasant to continue - so people go back
to their old way of eating!
SOURCE: Dr Gina Shaw, MA AIYS Dip. Irid.
(Adapted)
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