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Anti Aging Updates
Potential dangers of the
high protein diet
Time
magazine (May 5th 2004) forever with its
finger on the pulse has identified the potential harms
that might result from prolonged dedication to the high
protein diet. Too
much protein has the ability to leech protein from bones
leading to an increased risk for developing
osteoporosis. Diets
that are devoid of fruit and limited exposure to
vegetables as carbohydrates have to be restricted might
lead to essential nutrient deficiencies.
Then there are the dangers of a high saturated
fat diet, which might result in the formation of
cholesterol deposits that block up blood vessels. The interesting thing about the high protein diet is that a
recent television show screened in the UK which
attempted to identify the core reason for weight loss
with this diet found that the primary reason for this
diets success was the reduced calories people were
consuming when on a high protein diet.
What an excessive amount of protein in the diet
does is to switch on satiety early on so that fullness
is experienced after the consumption of limited portions
of food and therefore less is eaten and weight loss
results. To
put it simply this is what all weight loss programmes
tell us. To
lose weight you have to eat less and high protein diets
make this easier to achieve.
Whether this type of diet is actually healthy for
us is up for debate.
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