Thin Corpses: The Effects of High Protein/Low Carb Diets

by Chris Lewis, MH, CMT

In The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis, one of the characters says to his comrades, in warning, “If I suddenly [fall over dead]… after drinking this, you’ll know not to accept anything these people offer.” (edit mine) But what if that actually happened and one of his friends immediately drank from the same cup that killed him? You’d probably say this person was either insane or suicidal. But this same thing is happening all over the United States right now. People are embracing a fad diet that has killed many many people, including (probably) its own author. And this isn’t the only diet of this type. There are many other diets on the market now teaching similar ideas. These low carbohydrate/high protein diets encourage their followers to eat large amounts of meat, dairy products, and artificial sweeteners and little or no grains, fruits, and starchy vegetables in order to lose weight. And they do work for many people. The problem is, that even though you may lose weight on these diets, they can also kill you!
So called “high protein” diets are really nothing more than a new spin on the high cholesterol/saturated fat/mucus forming and low nutrition diets that have been the leading cause of death in America (except for the medical industry itself) for many decades now! It has been known for some time that high protein diets are a leading cause of osteoporosis, kidney stones, heart disease and heart failure, gout (a type of arthritis), low energy, halitosis (bad breath), diabetes, chronic constipation, breast and colon cancers, and many other of our most common ills. They stop up your digestive system, fill your body with uric acid, line your arteries with plaque, fill your liver, prostate, gall bladder, and other important organs with thick toxic sludge, leech calcium out of your bones, and leave you severely dehydrated (this is one of the ways they help you loose weight, but it’s weight in water, not fat).
These diets can also make your body panic (because it’s not getting the carbs it needs), so that every gram of carbohydrates your body sees, it then stores because it thinks you’re in some kind of famine and have a severe shortage of the right foods. In other words, high protein diets completely mess up your metabolism so that when you go off of the diet (which you will have to eventually, if you want to live) you gain the extra weight right back! So you got thin, but it didn’t last, and you’ve taken a couple decades (or more) off of your life by damaging your heart, liver, and other vital organs… doesn’t sound worth it, does it?
Carbohydrates are your body’s main energy source; they are the easiest of the three energy sources (protein, fats, and carbohydrates) for your body to use, and you cannot live without sufficient carbohydrates. That said, the problem is not with the carbs themselves, but rather with refined, processed, dead, nutritionless carbs from sources like white (or brown) refined sugar, white flour (in many breads, pastas, etc.), highly cooked/fried potatoes without the skin (most of the nutrition in potatoes is in the skin), etc. These “empty” carbs provide only large amounts of calories with little to no nutrition and cause many health problems, including obesity, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes. It is a good idea for everyone to avoid carbs from these sources, whether or not you are trying to lose weight.
So if these are the bad carbs, what are the good carbs? What is actually GOOD for health and losing weight? In short, whole live unrefined foods. All raw fruits and vegetables, whole low-heated or sprouted grains, seeds, nuts, legumes and nutritional herbs. Yes these all contain carbs and yes, they all contain calories, but these calories come packed with so much nutrition, that you won’t find yourself craving more and more calories in order to fill the nutritional void, as happens when you consume empty calories. Your body is also far better able to utilize the carbs from these foods, and they don’t cause the sudden elevations in blood sugar levels that refined carbs do. So instead of destroying your body on one of those “high-protein” diets, why not just use the common sense that every one of us has, eat real foods, and avoid fake and processed “foods,” and you’ll be much healthier, happier, and yes, thinner, without the terrible side-effects of these dangerous fad diets.

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– Chris Lewis, MH

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