Do High Protein Diets Benefit Non-Athletes?
My wife cannot seem to understand that diets like Dr. Atkins and other high protein diets would not benefit her. She is not really active and does not workout. I tried to explain it to her but I am not so sure myself why these types of diets are not so good for people like her. Can you help? It seems as if the major health organizations and the medical community are preaching that a healthy diet should be designed with the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) food guide pyramid in mind. However your pals at the health club, church group, family members, and office friends swear by the most recent “popular diet.” You are likely to lose weight on a high protein diet, which seems to be the most recent craze of the dieting market. Most of the “best-sellers” focus on decreasing carbohydrate consumption and increasing either fat or protein or both. Health officials are not disputing that weight-loss is a result of decreasing your carbohydrate intake. After all the elimination of
