blood cholesterol levels as well. High blood cholesterol is also a leading cause in cardiovascular disease. Although, you may be losing weight by using the high protein diets, you also may be losing years off of your life as well. The question you must ask yourself is, which diet will help you to lose weight and help you to live a long and happy life. DiscussionThe findings in researching the high protein diet, have led me to three conclusions. First, the high protein diet does help you to shed those extra pounds. As I pointed out during the paper, any time you reduce the amount of calories consumed you create a negative caloric balance, and therefore will lose weight. The protein diet does just that. How you ask? Well, it restricts the amount of calories consumed through carbohydrates. The key word here is restricts. The protein diet does allow you to eat any type of protein you like, but there is a limit to how much of it you are aloud to consume. High protein diets work because they are cutting out your primary source of calories that you were eating before the diet, and for some of us we do eat a lot of carbohydrates. Therefore, the reduction in carbohydrate calories is going to cause a negative caloric balance, which in turn will lead to the desired weight loss. So the question of whether I think the high protein diet works or not is yes. Secondly, the protein diet does not advocate exercise; therefore, I must conclude that any diet that does not stress exercise as part of its’ program is more concerned about book sales than a person’s health. For a diet to be a successful money - maker it must have a marketing tool. For the protein diet, it is the fact that you can lose weight without exercising, as well as eating all the fatty protein you want. With advertising propaganda like that, who would not want to try this diet. And, keep in mind the diet will work, because of the decreased amount of calories co...
