High Protein Diets are Safe!

A while back I wrote a brief piece on the Atkins diet, and how it always irritated me that the people critiquing it never seemed have any idea what they were talking about. One of the beefs these experts always had with the Atkins diet (and any low carb/higher protein diet diet) was its higher protein intake. Increased protein intake, these "experts" claimed, was dangerous, and could impede kidney function. While I agreed that people with kidney disease would be ill-advised to implement a high-protein diet, there was absolutely no evidence of any sort to indicate a higher-protein diet had negative health implications in healthy individuals.

Well, guess what?

A recent review of available research material by University of Connecticut researchers determined that there is "no significant evidence for a detrimental effect of high protein intakes on kidney function in healthy persons."

So once again, if you're eating a higher protein diet, don't be swayed by negative comments from the "experts." The evidence does not justify their comments.

This research is available for your review online, at the Nutrition and Metabolism web site. Click here to visit the site, or right click this link and choose "Save Target As" to download the PDF report of this research.