Top 15 Reasons to Avoid Low Carb, High Protein Diets
By Greg Landry, M.S
3. Depletion of muscle glycogen leads to muscle atrophy (loss of muscle). This happens because muscle glycogen (broken down to glucose) is the fuel of choice for the muscle during movement. There is always a fuel mix, but without muscle glycogen, the muscle fibers that contract, even at rest to maintain muscle tone, contract less when glycogen is not immediately available in the muscle. Depletion of muscle glycogen also causes you to exercise and move less than normal which leads to muscle loss and the inability to maintain adequate muscle tone.
Also, in the absence of adequate carbohydrate for fuel, the body initially uses protein (muscle) and fat. the initial phase of muscle depletion is rapid, caused by the use of easily accessed muscle protein for direct metabolism or for conversion to glucose (gluconeogenesis) for fuel. Eating excess protein does not prevent this because there is a caloric deficit.
When insulin levels are chronically too low as they may be in very low carb diets, catabolism (breakdown) of muscle protein increases, and protein synthesis stops.
4. Loss of muscle causes a decrease in your basal metabolic rate (metabolism). Metabolism happens in the muscle. Less muscle and muscle tone means a slower metabolism which means fewer calories burned 24 hours-a-day.
Ok, so what this stupid twat is trying to say is that Atkin's diet, which is based on to rule "no carbs, lot's of protein" make you loss your muscles? There must be millions of competing bodybuilders who KNOWS that doesn't work like that, because pre contest diet is very close to Atkins diet. Do they loss muscle mass? Well, maybe Kamali and True Apenis do, but the average BB'er can in fact increase muscle mass while dieting. True Anus have work hard to find this piece of crap, just to try to make his "True Anus principles" aka "Dieting for Village Idiots and Complete Morons" look better, but hey; pile of shit is pile of shit no matter how you try to decorate it. While you whiners has been here arguing this and that, there have been major change in nourishment guidelines in USA, and what they recommend is a high protein and low carb diet. Americans are the most overweight nation in the world, so there have been need to make some improvements, and that is the cure which they find.
For some stupid brats in here; protein is main fuel of your metabolism, not carbs. Your brain use grams of protein per hour even while you are in sleep, and that's why you muscles fade away so fast when you are immobilized by some disability. Heart is a muscle, and muscles need some protein to maintain their strength. Carbs are just easiest way to get some energy, but when you teach your system use fat for energy instead of carbs, it works just fine. There have been numerous of studies about this around a world, but there haven't been any results which defends any high carb diet. In fact, even in USA they try to teach average citizen to change their way to high protein and low carb diet by the government.
