New Atkins diet — a protein overload?
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True the quantity of weight loss will arguably be the same regardless of macronutrient but the quality of it will not. If one eats mostly fat while dieting they can say byebye to a good amount of muscle mass especially when they get down to leaner levels. Unfortunately they conveniently left out commenting on the LBM levels of the dieters in the study before and after (not that it'd be that significant at all if it was only 5-10 pounds and the person was overweight).
And like the article touches on with thermogenesis, for the "Thermal Effect of Food" (the amount of energy the body uses to digest things), protein has a higher thermogenesis than fat or carbs, which means if you eat 100 cals of fat, your body may use 4-5 of those calories to digest it, whereas if it's 100 cals of protein it's more like 15-20 cals, and as the article says it also satiates for longer. Not a huge difference, but a big enough one in the long run and good enough to make protein stand out.
Now let's see what kind of ridiculous protein diets the companies can come up with. "400g of protein a day, who needs vegetables!"
And like the article touches on with thermogenesis, for the "Thermal Effect of Food" (the amount of energy the body uses to digest things), protein has a higher thermogenesis than fat or carbs, which means if you eat 100 cals of fat, your body may use 4-5 of those calories to digest it, whereas if it's 100 cals of protein it's more like 15-20 cals, and as the article says it also satiates for longer. Not a huge difference, but a big enough one in the long run and good enough to make protein stand out.
Now let's see what kind of ridiculous protein diets the companies can come up with. "400g of protein a day, who needs vegetables!"
Jeanette401
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I did notice that the article was still anti-fat despite not really giving a reason. And I see they're still putting forth the 'no more than 1-2 lbs a week' regardless of your actual weight...
I've seen much better health benefits from increasing protein & fiber than I ever did from decreasing fat. But maybe the avocado has just taken over my braaaaain.
I've seen much better health benefits from increasing protein & fiber than I ever did from decreasing fat. But maybe the avocado has just taken over my braaaaain.
ChefChiTown
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If I wanted a protein overload, I'd just follow the Paris Hilton Diet.
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...think abooooout it.
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...THERE YA GO!!! Nooooow you get it!!!
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...waaaaait fooooor iiiiit.
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...think abooooout it.
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...THERE YA GO!!! Nooooow you get it!!!
TheFitRebel
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The Yellow food diet
This kind of reminds me of the spoof diet I made called the Yellow food diet.
The idea was to avoid all foods with the color yellow on the package.
Even though there is no connection to the color yellow on the food package and our ability to gain weight the idea was that we take some characteristic that most foods have in common and tell people not to eat those foods so we just eat less due to the fact that we drastically limit our selection of foods we can eat.
I'm pretty sure you would lose weight on any diet that had some broad and encompassing limiting factor to it, and it doesn't even matter what that limitation is just so long as it's a limitation.
This kind of reminds me of the spoof diet I made called the Yellow food diet.
The idea was to avoid all foods with the color yellow on the package.
Even though there is no connection to the color yellow on the food package and our ability to gain weight the idea was that we take some characteristic that most foods have in common and tell people not to eat those foods so we just eat less due to the fact that we drastically limit our selection of foods we can eat.
I'm pretty sure you would lose weight on any diet that had some broad and encompassing limiting factor to it, and it doesn't even matter what that limitation is just so long as it's a limitation.
