Is it healthy to go on a High Protein Low Fat Diet?
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I am a body builder,trying to get big and I have small amount of body fat like 7 kg at most.I am planning to go on a High Protein ,Low Fat Diet.I want to get big and lose the excessive fat at the same time.
I am a body builder,trying to get big and I have small amount of body fat like 7 kg at most.I am planning to go on a High Protein ,Low Fat Diet.I want to get big and lose the excessive fat at the same time.
Is this healthy for my body?
Doesn’t a body builder’s body need any fat to grow the muscles?
Is it easy a body builder to keep growing their muscles when there’s no fat in their body?
Is it ok for the body to have no fat at all?
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Ever since the popularity of the Atkins diet exploded, low-carb / high protein diets have been under fire from critics who say that eating very high levels of protein (three to four times the normal daily amount) would compromise the function of important organs such as the kidneys. Others claim high protein diets don’t really help people lose weight.
It turns out both are wrong. New research on rats conducted in France and appearing in the American Journal of Physiology shows that a high protein diet not only helped rats maintain a lower body weight (18% lower total body weight than the other group) even while feeding freely on high protein foods, it also resulted in healthy liver and kidney function, outstanding blood chemistry, healthier blood sugar regulation and improved glucose tolerance. No negative effects of a high protein diet were found. The rats fed high protein foods were healthier, weighed less, and showed no abnormal function of the kidneys or any other organs.
I admit that even I’ve been somewhat cautious of recommending extremely high protein diets to other people, even though I do follow a high protein diet myself. But this research helps bolster the wisdom of pursuing these high protein, low-carb diets such as the South Beach Diet and Atkins diet.
The most important consideration in all this, by the way, is: where do you get your protein? If you’re getting your protein primarily by eating red meat, you’re going to cause all sorts of other health problems (like heart disease) in your body due to the saturated fats found in red meat, the additive ingredients such as sodium nitrite, and the high concentration of pesticides and other potentially harmful contaminants such as mad cow disease. If you want to be healthy on a high protein diet, you must choose healthy sources of protein. What are the best sources? The best sources of protein are:
* spirulina – a superfood with outstanding protein content. Ounce for ounce, it offers twelve times more digestible protein than beef!
* organic whey protein – a fantastic source of digestible protein, but you have to make sure it comes from organic cow’s milk and contains no hormones or pesticides. A good product for whey protein is Jay Robb’s whey protein.
* quinoa – the grain of the Incas, quinoa can replace wheat or rice in your cooking while offering a complete protein (something no other grain offers)
* fish – fresh fish like salmon, orange roughy, shrimp and calamari are outstanding sources of low-fat protein. However, some harvesting methods (especially for shrimp) cause environmental damage. Furthermore, many fish from the sea are contaminated with high levels of mercury, making them a poor choice for daily consumption.
Sources of protein to avoid:
* cow’s milk – this substance is often marketed as a high protein food, but in fact its protein content is rather low on a volume basis, and the homogenized fats in milk are thought to promote heart disease and circulatory disorders.
* beef or red meat – for starters, beef carries the risk of mad cow disease. Furthermore, beef is frequently sourced from cows who are fed chicken litter, rendered animal parts, crops sprayed with pesticides and other highly undesirable substances that don’t belong in the food chain. Packaged red meat at the grocery store is often preserved with sodium nitrite, a cancer-causing ingredient.
* protein powders with artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharin or sucralose — never buy or consume protein powders made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame. Aspartame is linked to neurological disorders and outright destruction of nerve cells thanks to its chemical toxicity. Instead, look for protein powders made with stevia (a natural, herbal sweetener).
* cheese – cheese is an extremely high fat food item, and it’s the worst kind of fat, too: saturated fat from animal sources. Eating cheese regularly will pack on the pounds and clog your arteries.
The bottom line to all this is that a high protein diet has proven to be safe, at least in rats. But you can still make a high protein diet dangerous if you get your protein from undesirable sources like beef, cow’s milk or cheese. So follow a high protein diet wisely by choosing protein sources that support your good health. And as always, you’ll be far healthier with any diet if you also engage in a regular physical exercise program.
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Anyone who claims they’ve gone on the Atkins Diet who have lost their gall bladders due to infection have never read the book.
So, don’t make that mistake when going on a high protein diet. Protein is obtained by food combining leafy green vegetables and beans and whole rice or many varieties of fruits and vegetables.
The human body has a symbiotic relationship with plant foods, so don’t ignore them or your immune system will suffer.
Also, don’t avoid a certain kind of fat and avoid others. Avoid trans fats, like man made oils, such as margarine, Kraft food products, Skippy type peanut butters, or Wesson Oils… Why? They stiffen cell walls and create oxidative stress so that you tire more easily when working out.
Eat fatty acids, a type of fat that takes the bad fat out of your body. Such as Olive oils, Flax Seed Oils, Avocados, nuts, seeds, or Fish Oils. Those fats reverse heart disease and improve your nervous system.
There’s more, but be healthy, stay healthy, and you will reduce overall body fat, increase lean muscle, and increase bone density through the proper nutritional tools.
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Not a good idea. Because once you eat anything that has maybe a little too much protein you’re gonna end up with that fat back. Not good for you.
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it is NOT healthy, and bodybuilders have THE most unhealthy diets to look the way they do for competitions.
but in the offseason, bodybuilders REALLY put on weight, fat and muscle, then right before the comp, they diet like mad for months even cutting out water intake…. i mean, they black out, pass out, have NO energy… then after the comp usually they binge because they’ve been starving themselves for so long.
this is why i chose not to do a figure competition. i’m a girl, 23 and i’ve always been into weight lifting. but the diet is sooooo horrible and unsafe that i decided against it.
so make SURE you know exactly what you’re doing… and set a competition date, and register… then plan out when to start your diet… but remember, during the off-season, bodybuilders are NOT cut and do not appear lean. OFCOURSE the body NEEDS fat!
in order to achieve the appearance that bodybuilders have, you have to put your health aside…
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I’m not a bodybuilder but I think I can help. If you want to get into the bodybuilding game you’re gonna have to do a couple things. When it comes to diet, you need to limit how many carbs you consume, you need to limit how much fat you consume and you have to stack up on protein more than anything else. This doesn’t mean that you should cut carbs and fats out all of the way (that would be unhealthy), but you should consume less than normal. Especially before competitions. Now I’ll answer your questions more specifically:
“I want to get big and lose the excessive fat at the same time.”
I’ll tell you if I had a dime for everytime I hear someone say that, I’d be a millionaire. If you want to lose fat, you’re gonna have to start doing cardio along with eating less carbs and fat. That’s alot harder than it sounds. At the same time you’re gonna have to limit cardio if you want to bulk up. That’s the trick. You have to do cardio to lose fat but you also have to limit it in order to bulk up. What you do is eat big, lift big, and do SOME cardio and you’ll reach your goal eventually.
“Is this healthy for my body?”
Losing fat isn’t gonna harm you as long as you do it right. As long as you don’t cut all fats out, you’ll be good. Otherwise it’s not healthy.
“Doesn’t a body builder’s body need any fat to grow the muscles?”
The problem isn’t bulding muscle. The problem is that by not having any fat and not consuming it is VERY bad for your health.
“Is it easy a body builder to keep growing their muscles when there’s no fat in their body?”
You need some fat for EVERYTHING. No matter what business you’re in, you need some fat. Either way, it’s impossible to have no fat at all. Even bodybuilding giants like Jay Cutler and Ronnie Coleman have a 2 or 3 pecent bodyfat.
“Is it ok for the body to have no fat at all?”
No, that’s not healthy. Then again, like the answerer before me posted, proffessional bodybuilders don’t have healthy diets at all. They do things that on the long run will break them down. At least modern ones do. Some of the natural bodybuilders from the golden age of bodybuilding did it healthy but there’s no way that you’ll win a competition with their body.
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no, high protein can increase your cholesterol. and for boys you at lest need an 14-17% of body fat. to get a healthy body you need to have regular food on time and exercise it will keep you fit and healthy. green vegetables are good for body but not eating is not a diet. it makes you weak. you need about about 72% of water to keep it healthy.