How can the Atkins diet lower cholesterol but still be a diet that is unhealthy?
Most Americans today are deficient in lean protein. It is very difficult to eat too much lean protein. Many people think they are getting sufficient protein from dairy, eggs, and red meat. However, these sources of protein are not high quality because they contain a lot of saturated fat as well. • Some of the healthiest and fittest people in the world are natural body builders, because they are some of the leanest people in the world. And to give you an idea, they eat on average somewhere between 300 and 500 grams of pure lean protein every day – in the form of whey protein, chicken, white fish, tuna, salmon, egg whites, cottage cheese, etc. That is equivalent to approximately 20 chicken breasts per day. That is pretty difficult to ingest in a day for the average person. Even eating this amount of lean protein, along with sufficient water to avoid dehydration, there are no known cases of kidney dysfunction in natural body builders who eat a balanced diet with sufficient hydration.
