Have you ever wondered why some of the heaviest people you happen to meet are eternally on a diet? Of course if we look at what the words really mean one could say that we are all on some kind of diet. The fundamental problem of any sort of diet is that most people are looking to diet as the quick fix solution.
A person might have taken a good five to ten years to put on say between 20 to 40 extra pounds (or more) and now they would like to take it off in say between two to four weeks!
Okay, I hear my reader agreeing, we all know that, “so why am I still reading this article?”
Good point, so lets start with the basics. The reason people gain weight is because they have consumed more food in the way of calories then their body needs to carry out its many millions of reactions which are essential for good health. Very often a diet will fail because a person is only focusing on one thing to cut out of their diet entirely. A perfect example of this is fat. Just like the other nutrients, the human body requires a certain amount of fat to function properly, However it is pretty well believed by most, that the typical American diet provides too much fat.
So the common response is okay, let me cut fat entirely out of my diet. Such individuals will spend more money at the grocery store to buy products which have been cleverly labeled by their manufacturer to be low fat. Alternatively individuals trying to lose weight will buy products that are labeled no fat. The fact that many of these foods are not even supposed to have fat in them are of relatively little concern for the uninformed dieter.
Another important aspect of dieting that is often misunderstood by most is the entire issue of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the most abundant ingredient in just about all types of foods. It is highly unlikely that one could seriously expect to lose weight, if they are not seriously looking at the way they are consuming carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the natural fuel source for our bodies.
When in an individual takes in more carbohydrates then their body needs, the excess carbohydates are easily formed into fat by the body. Even though there are many dangers and pitfalls to the high protein, or Scarsdale Diet, it does have some fundamental ideas which allow an indivual to lose weight. One of the fundamental principles that allows the high protein diet to work is that; the body must expend more energy (burn carbohydrates) to turn excess protein into fat (the body’s energy reserve) then it does to turn excess carbohydrates into fat.
The primary danger of the Scarsdale Diet (or whatever they are calling it these days) is that it is throwing the entire human body into a metabolic pathway which is known as ketosis. This potentially dangerous metabolic pathway kicks in because of an extreme lack of carbohydates. The body can no longer utilize its normal fuel source and now must turn to either breaking down stored fat (this is what we are hoping for and why we diet) or begin to break down either ingested protein, or alternatively break down protein which makes up the body, perhaps even breaking down muscle through cataboloic pathways (this is usually a bad thing)
Protein is made of amino acids, amino acids contain nitrogen. Excess nitrogen in the body is actually very harmfull. The excess nitrogen (nitrogenous wastes) get removed by the body via the kidenys. anyone even having a little knowledge of The Scarsdale Diet, aka The Atkins Diet or other high protein diets also know the importance of consuming a lot of water.
I had the opportunity to do some research on the entire topic of what is commonly known as the high protein diet. I suppose now might be a geat time to state that I am not an MD, and am not making any official dietary reccomendations here. My hope is simply to educate the reader using relatively easy (non-technical) terminology.
or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates (e.g. breads, pasta) are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats (e.g. meats, soy products) and often other foods low in carbohydrates (e.g. green leafy vegetables).
From wikipedia (link below)
Low-carbohydrate diets
The precise definition of low-carbohydrate diets varies greatly. The term is most commonly used to refer to ketogenic diets, i.e. diets that restrict carbohydrate intake sufficiently to cause ketosis like the Atkins diet,[1][2][3] but some sources consider less restrictive variants to be low-carbohydrate as well…
Question: What is Ketosis?
Answer: A lot of people are confused by the term “ketosis.” You may read that it is a “dangerous state” for the body, and it does sound abnormal to be “in ketosis.” But ketosis merely means that our bodies are using fat for energy. Ketones (also called ketone bodies) are molecules generated during fat metabolism
Source for above:
What is Ketosis? By Laura Dolson, About.com Updated: July 5, 2008
I believe the article:
What is Ketosis?
By Laura Dolson, About.com
Updated: July 5, 2008
may be truly understating the significance of ketosis.
The primary thing that one should understand when taking on a major dietary change in consultation with a physcian is that ketosis comes about as the body’s mechanism for obtaining its energy need when carbohydrate intake is reduced to an overall level of say around 15-20 grams of carbohydrate per day. That right not per serving, or per donut, but per day. Also I have heard users of this type of diet strongly suggest getting the bulk of these 15-20 grams of carbs in the morning. Ketosis is what will happen when the body starts using the its vast energy reserves which is stored as fat in the human body.
Why do so many diets fail?
Getting the human body to use fat as its fuel is apparently going against the general method for which the human body is designed, regarding using energy stored as fat.
The body must go into an emergency mode which is the mode it goes into during fasting, and later starvation. Yes the body can consume fat as its preferred source of energy, however the carbohydrate intake must be extremely restricted to very low levels. Also you can not go on a diet like this for a day, go off the next day and then go back on (and expect it to work) because the body first uses up the energy stored in the liver (as glycogen) and also to some extent and will actually break down muscle during its first 24 hours of extreme carbohydrate deprivation.
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