Is there any health risks of high protein diet?

Question

Will too much protien intake will affect the health of the body?

Answer 1

yes you could get high blood pressure

Answer 2

In my experience I would say a high protein diet is only really dangerous if you don't lower your carbohydrate intake at the same time.

There have been endless arguments about high protein diets affecting your kidneys and killing you in any number of ways, all of which have never really been scientifically proven.

I tried Atkins with great success and absolutely NO side or ill effects. And there's no reason why (as suggested by some answers) a high protein diet should rob you of vitamins, nutrients or fibre. On Atkins you can take vitamin supplements if you really want to, but vegetables, meat, fish and dairy products all contain sufficient levels of vitamins.

Also there's no evidence that it gives you high blood pressure, in fact my blood pressure actually dropped when I started the diet.

On Atkins I actually feel more healthy and energetic than I ever did before, plus I have much greater concentration than I used to have.

I think that a high-protein diet is only dangerous if you have a high carbohydrate intake at the same time. In this case your body is too busy burning up the carbs to deal with the protein intake, that's when the proteins start to build up and the problems start. If you reduce your carb intake to a low level then I think you should be ok.

Answer 3

There is no proven link between high-protein diets and kidney disease. If you have healthy kidneys, go for it. The only problem is if you already have kidney disease.

Answer 4

yes, in diet all the element should be in balance and also fluid and pH level should be maintained, so high protein level may interfere with this balance and may cause the kidney problem very often like stones or may be renal failure also
so take balanced diet

Answer 5

At very high amounts you could have some kidney and high blood pressure problems, but you really have to be over doing it to reach that kind of level.

When I say over doing it, I mean about 2.5 grams per lbs. of body weight to be doing over kill.

Shoot for 0.7-0.9 grams of protein per lbs. of body weight.

Answer 6

Yes, it can cause kidney problems for one. People need to have balance in their diet to be healthy, too much or too little of good foods cause problems.

Answer 7

Risks of high-protein diets


Although you might lose weight initially, numerous studies have shown high-protein, high-fat plans to be ineffective over time, and they may in fact be harmful to your health. Most doctors and nutritionists agree that such plans keep you from getting essential nutrients, vitamins, and fiber found in plants, all of which help prevent disease and protect your health. Moreover, losing weight on this type of diet can lead to more serious health problems than being overweight, according to individual physicians and several leading U.S. health organizations. A few of their findings:

• The American Kidney Fund has cautioned that high-protein diets have the potential to cause scarring in the kidneys, which have to process more wastes from excess protein.

• The increase in uric acid from high-protein diets can lead to gout, a disease that causes painful inflammation in the joints, severe dehydration, and weak bones, according to physicians Michael F. Roizen and John La Puma, authors of The Real Age Diet, a book about eating to stay young. Gout has long been linked to a diet of foods such as meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, seeds, and nuts, which can increase uric acid.

• In a 2001 report on high-protein diets, the American Heart Association warned that filling up on protein-rich foods that are high in fat can increase the risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke, and certain kinds of cancer.


"High-protein diets in their own right may [also] damage the kidneys, particularly if kidney disease is already present," says Robert Eckel, MD, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and one of the authors of an American Heart Association report on high-protein diets. When the AHA reviewed several popular high-protein weight-loss plans, it was especially harsh on those that had dieters eat high amounts of animal protein, saturated fats, and cholesterol. Forsake more healthful choices such as fruit and vegetables in favor of foods with higher levels of saturated fats, and your diet may lead to high blood pressure and heart disease, the AHA said.

The AHA's own dietary guidelines recommend that consumers eat a diet that is only 15 to 20 percent protein and only 10 percent saturated fats each day. But in five of the most popular high-protein diets -- Atkins, The Zone, Protein Power, Sugar Busters, and Stillman -- proteins far exceeded those guidelines. The amount of saturated fats, however, varied, with the Stillman diet, Sugar Busters, and The Zone containing only 13, 4, and 9 percent saturated fats, respectively. In contrast, the Atkins diet allows 68 percent of your overall diet to come from fat, 26 percent of it heart-clogging saturated fat.

Although the AHA said all the diets would promote weight loss, the researchers pointed out that none of them was very practical, because they all limited food choices and were difficult to maintain over time. And although there were no large long-term studies on high-protein diets, a small study of 24 overweight people on the Atkins diet found that their levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol rose even though they lost weight, elevating their risk of heart disease. Not exactly a good tradeoff.

The Atkins diet also received harsh criticism from researchers with the Nutrition Action Health Letter. When the group completed a nutritional analysis of weight-loss books in 2001, it judged the Atkins diet "unsafe" or "unacceptable" due to its high allowance of saturated fats. Nutrition Action gave Pritikin and The Zone high-protein diets a rating of "acceptable."

Answer 8

not necessarily
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