There are many fads and lose weight quick diets out there. Each and every one tries to convince you that they are the best, that their new and improved diet will definitely shed those unwanted pounds fast and with very little adjustment to your daily life. There are diets that tell you to only eat a certain color of food. There are diets that advise you to only eat carbohydrates or eat anything but carbohydrates. My favorites are the ones that try to convince you that you can lose weight without exercise.
Let’s look at high protein diets. These diets assure you that if you eat only foods high in protein then you will lose weight faster than other diets. While this diet may in fact shed those pounds fast there are serious health risk involved that are not as highly publicized. Before we get to the dangers we will go over some of the supposed benefits and why they seem to work.
There are 3 mechanisms your body has that a high protein diet promotes weight loss. One is the ability of a dietary protein to increase energy use. Now this may not be a significant weight loss and also depends on the proportions of animal and vegetable protein your intake. Second is high protein diets seem to raise daily energy and decrease the sleeping metabolic rate. The third is satiety. Protein makes you feel fuller than other nutrients.
There are benefits to a high protein diet such as when you are on a high protein diet you tend to add more fish to your diet which gives you good protein and good fats called Omega 3. Having a constantly stream of protein is good in the respect that your body cannot store protein and needed it for everything. It helps build strong cells, bones tissues helps repair torn muscles & tissues. One other benefit besides the loss if weight is the amount of fiber you intake if you replace your carbohydrates with foods like beans which help lower cholesterol.