Be wary of misunderstandings about protein weight loss

A promotional pamphlet once taught physical exercise enthusiasts that if protein is lacking in food,"the body will begin to consume its own protein until it runs out." This state will affect the performance of sports and can even cause losses." How terrible this is. This consequence really occurred when famine occurred in the arid areas south of the Sahara Desert.

But what is the situation in Germany?

Not only are physical exercise enthusiasts convinced that those tiny protein powders and protein drinks can give them energy, but even overweight and obese people have been convinced that they can also melt away unwanted fat. So merchants began to make money. Raw materials are just cheap things, such as milk powder or soy flour, and they are leftover scraps from milk processing plants and margarine production plants.

In the past, they were all poured into domestic pig feed troughs. But beware: Compared with those short-lived domestic pigs, who are often fed fat and then slaughtered, after long-term consumption of protein powder, although people can get the same bulging biceps or biceps femoris as Arnold Schwarzenegger's promised, the scary thing is that uric acid also increases, and there are even more horrific consequences: gout and liver and kidney tissue damage, and absolutely no one is immune.

However, there are very few "guarantees" in this regard. After all, businessmen have struggled to double the value of their cheap little powder, which is more expensive than delicious and juicy steaks. How can they deliberately lift a stone and hit themselves in the foot...

Strictly speaking, protein drugs are a continuation of the Atkins diet. As early as 1863, the recipe was highly praised in a "Letter on Prosperity" from Briton William Banting. The Atkins recipe was the idea of Claude Bernard, a doctor in Paris.

What it advocates is to abandon carbohydrates completely and replace them with protein-rich foods.

Here's the reason: Carbohydrates can be converted into fat by the body and stored, but protein cannot. So in other words, people can eat steaks without worrying about getting fat. As for the lies currently advocated by body-building magazines, claiming that "the body can convert protein in food into muscle mass," it was not something that the Atkins diet could have thought of at the time.

However, after conducting extensive trials on Atkins 'diet, people had to point out that in addition to the negative consequences caused by general weight loss recipes, such as weight gain and osteoporosis, this diet formula also "differently" caused severe depression among dieters.

Due to the lack of carbohydrates, the body rebelled, producing only a small amount of serotonin, and people's mood dropped to its peak. At the same time, the extreme hunger for sweets is almost irresistible, and the strong desire is severely tormenting the dieting volunteers. Fortunately, they can also consume more fat and avoid the pain of gallstone colic.

That's kind of a balance, since people who only eat non-fat foods to lose weight generally experience gallstone colic. However, overall, only a few people can follow this questionable diet to the end and realize their desire to lose weight in the short term.

Editor in charge: Zhang Liling