High Protein Diet Plan

Potential Benefits of a High Protein Diet Plan:

• Protein structure contains carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. They are made up of chains of amino acids that help cells in your body to grow and repair themselves. Amino acids are the single building blocks that make up protein.

• Your body uses amino acids- such as valine, lysine, tryptophan to create muscles, skin, blood and internal organs.

• Protein may also help keep your hair and nails strong.

• It can act as a secondary fuel source in ultra endurance exercise, as insufficient carb can lead to the disassembly of body tissues to use the protein as energy.

Muscle Building Diets

*Before we continue with high protein diet plan, I'd like to tell you about my favorite diet program that uses a lot of the healthy lower GI foods: Isabel de los Rios' 'The Diet Solution Program'.

The Diet Solution Program favours a long term health orientated approach to fat loss, but not offering anyone a quick fix to their weight troubles. It has loads of valuable data and research to support its approach. I personally investigated the program thoroughly and my mum has been using it for a while now. I have to say she got some great results.

The nutrition plan is one of the healthiest we have seen, a strong core focus on vegetables, fruits, vitamin dense foods, lean proteins, select dairy produce and a clear approach to not expecting one diet to work for all body types. So give it a try and let me know how you’re doing.*

In case of excessive protein consumption:

• Your body is unable to store excess protein, which means extra burden on your kidneys.

• Many high protein foods are also high in saturated fats and cholesterol, this increases harmful LDL cholesterol levels in your body, which may potentially lead to coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and certain types of cancer.

• You may lose weight temporarily when you are on a high protein diet because you lose water at the same time. Excess protein causes a diuretic response of your body and this results in the loss of minerals including calcium from the bones, leading to osteoporosis.

• Calcium that is taken from the bones, are deposited in kidneys and may form into kidney stones.

• High protein diets can cause bad breath. It occurs because ketones build up in the blood.

• Those that follow a high protein diet end up eating high protein high fat foods and do not consume enough fruits and vegetables, high protein diets tend to lack fiber as animal products have no fiber. This may lead to increased risk of certain cancers and cardiovascular disease as well as other complications.

I personally rely on common sense. Many research papers claimed that excess protein can do you harm and it is not worth taking the risk. Extra protein is surely needed by athletes and body builders but an average person shouldn't go beyond the recommended daily intake.

Improve your health by enjoying a great variety of nutritious and high fiber foods, replace saturated fats with unsaturated, some of the animal meat protein in your diet with vegetable protein.

If you are aiming to lose weight, burn more calories than you eat. And remember everything should be in moderation in life.

Warrior Diet

Eskimo Diet

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