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Is a high-protein diet bad for health?
A high-protein diet may help you lose weight, but in the long term it can also cause problems such as heart disease, kidney damage, constipation, hair loss and infertility
Many weight-loss diets, such as Atkins, recommend proteins as your body’s main food source. The reasoning is that because your body needs more energy to break down and digest fats and protein than it does carbohydrates, your metabolism increases, aiding weight loss.
These diets suggest you eat large quantities of protein-rich foods such as meat, fish, nuts, soya, eggs and cheese, and nearly exclude carbohydrates. With a ‘normal’ diet, your body derives energy by burning carbs, fats and proteins, in that order. When deprived of carbs, it resorts to burning fats and proteins for energy.
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