nsumed through restricted carbohydrates. As a result, you not have all of these people running around claiming how great the protein diet is because it allowed them to lose 20 pounds while eating all the fat they wanted and not exercising. Finally, I do not think that the protein diet will lead to a healthier person than you were before you began the diet. You may lose a few pounds; in terms of life expectancy, there is no doubt, that people on protein diets are actually headed toward unwanted high cholesterol and heart problems.High protein diets cause high cholesterol through their increased consumption of animal products. With cardiovascular disease already the number one cause of death in the United States, the protein diet may cause a drastic rise in the number of heart related diseases as more and more people looking for an easy answer to healthy eating turn to the protein diet. In my personal opinion, the protein diet is simply a fad diet claiming that you can eat fat and get skinny. Because all of the increased high protein in this diet will come from foods that are also high in saturated fats, individuals who are on the protein diet will experience elevated cholesterol levels. This, unfortunately, is one of the primary causes of heart disease. In conclusion, the protein diet is a diet that will work, but so will starving yourself. The more important question to ask is, “What are the long-term effects of high protein diets?” I think long-term studies of the high protein diet, which are currently under way, will yield the same findings we already have about high fat diets. That is that diets high in fat lead to cardiovascular disease and an increased risk of heart attacks. However, in today’s “Charge now, pay later” society, I am afraid that we are not concerned with the long-term effects of diets such as the protein diets. We are, however, concerned with our appearance and how we can...
