High Protein Diet Plan
High Protein Diet Plan that an athlete or anyone that works out at a gym regularly is on is different to the High Protein Diets such as the Atkins Diet for weight loss, which includes large amounts of fat.
Potential Benefits of a High Protein Diet Plan:
• Protein is certainly filling, it will make you feel full quickly, it has several functions in the body and it is important for sports performance.
• 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.
In case of excessive protein consumption:
There is no doubt protein is vitally important but do you need too much of it or can it cause harm if eaten in excess? In other words does it come at a price? Please don’t forget.. everything should be in moderation.
• 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 tolack fiber as animal products have no fiber. This may lead to increased risk of certain cancers and cardiovascular disease as well as other complications.
And there are those that claim all of the above are nothing more than myths.
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.
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High Protein Diet Plan- References:
High Protein Diets – Are You Losing More Than Weight? By Monique N. Gilbert, http://www.fwhc.org/ health/ high protein diet.htm
High protein diet plan brings risk of kidney stones, by Scott Gottlieb New York, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/ extract/325/ 7361/ 408/d.
High Protein Diet Found Beneficial: Journal of Nutrition 2000; 130: 2889-2896, http://www.lowcarb.ca/ articlesb/ article327.html.
http://www.weightlossnutrition.org/ high protein diet plan /
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ nutritionsource/ what-should-you-eat/ protein/
