Shedding Weight Through High Protein Diet

Don’t be deceived by the name ‘high protein’—which is another way of saying low or no-carb diet. All the trend diets that were no or low carb in recent years were condemned for their unhealthiness. Low or no carb diet also suggests high protein or fat diet; it’s just altering the name and wishing everyone will swallow it!

What is a high protein diet? A high protein diet is precisely what it claims it is; except the difference to make is that to be high protein it also has to control the carbs that you consume. If you stay with the amount of carbs that you consume, but up the amount of protein, you’ll not lose any weight; yet, if you drop the carb calories and swap them protein calories, you’re likely to lose weight. How it works though, is not very healthy.

First of all, the body, indeed, needs protein for building and maintaining muscles. Some sources of protein in standard diet comprise all dairy products, some types of beans, and all kinds of nuts. Meaning, even vegetarians, if they understand a suitable diet, can find sufficient protein intake from yogurt, milk, and cheese although they don’t eat meat, fish or eggs. Soy products now make this likely for vegans.

So the body does need protein and carbohydrates. While protein develops and preserves muscles, carbohydrates provide energy source to nudge muscles so that they can be strengthened.

Protein can be transformed into energy, but the course is inept and yields toxins as it is changing protein to glucose--effect is becoming tired, ratty and constipated. Sure, low and no carb diets let you drop weight, just like the high protein diet will make you lose weight, supposing not all the proteins you eat are rib eye steaks. The ideal diet is adjusted with foods from the food pyramid. Every group boasts its purpose. If you want to lose weight in a healthful, efficient means, the key is to choose the complex carbs, leaner meats, unsaturated fats and lots of fruits and vegetables.

This may not be the fastest means to lose weight, but it is the healthiest and it is a stable sort of weight loss. High protein or no carb diets aid you lose weight at once, but it comes piling back on a once you’re back to your ‘regular’ diet.

Gluten-free diets gaining in popularity (USA Today)

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Weight Management (US News & World Report)

More than 65 percent of American adults are overweight or obese.

S.M.A.C. — Oh Those Olympians And Their Fad Diets (Benton Evening News)

I’ll admit it, I’m always a little envious when I watch the Olympics. Technically, I am still an amateur athlete myself, and I am eligible to participate in the Games. So I guess you could say I choose not to tryout out for Team USA. But that might change after I saw the special diet U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps is on. This guy is more of an animal in a breakfast nook than he ever was ...

What's eating us? (The New Zealand Herald)

Who doesn't know someone who's on a diet? Whether it's rigorously adhering to the guidelines of the latest fad diet, eating only healthy food and "being good" before falling wholly off the wagon, or just restricting your calorie intake, obsessing about food has become the ultimate modern anxiety.

Report: California is 41st fattest state (BizJournals)

Though Michael Phelps may consume 10,000 calories per day, he exercises so much it doesn’t matter. But the average American watching him on TV now eats 300 more calories per day than in 1985. (SBUX)