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Well, I choose only foods which have Low or medium glycemic index. The low carbs diet don't work for me. High protein foods will trash your kidneys, and fatty diet (LOL) - well if there is any It'll be for anorexics.

It would probably be better to start a regular thread, rather than start an argument in the stickies.

How, exactly, do high protein foods "trash your kidneys"? Not to put it harshly, but this is not only a myth, but a really dumb myth.

i feel a spamming coming on...

There is no evidence for those silly assertions.

I also sense a spam coming on.

what do you mean no evidence?? The more you use something, the faster it wears out. Thats why I avoid cardio.

Sense whatever you like, I'm a medical student sixth year and I know what I'm talking about. Using too much proteins and not importing carbohydrates leads to burning the proteins (in person the aminoacids). This rises the levels of amoniac which must be either remetabolised or excreted out of the body. Guess where goes the amoniac. Riiiiiight... in the urine... Guess what's producing the urine? Ofcourse the kidneys.... There's a diet - some french guy invented it (I can't remember the name now). The intensive care is full with kids who developed acute kidney failure after they've been 3-4 months on that diet.

P.S. By the way my first intention was to spam, I admit it! But I think this forum is worthy... So I won't even think of it. ;)

You paid for six years of college to learn absolutely nothing about nutrition, it seems.

You should brush up on that and I still think you're going to end up spamming.

Either way, you don't know what you're talking about.

OK. If you say so... You have bigger practice in the clinics than me ;) I don't think I'm going to spam, that's your oppinion. We'll wait and we'll see. Complex carbohydrates and a decent protein intake plus exercises can do the job

I never said it couldn't, you're saying that high protein intake causes kidney issues - which has been shown to be false by tons of studies.

Took 30 seconds to find a random study on pubmed that's tested and proved you wrong.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21194471



Just leave the forums, I can already tell you're not going to be welcome here.

This was a sticky posted by Aaron, for use as a quick reference. You guys want to debate the issue, start a new thread.
Tim

That's the argument from authority fallacy. Your education is not evidence.



Baseless assertion. It's also difficult to tell what you are trying to say. A possible translation error?



You have not established that there is any rise in ammonia. Therefore this statement is irrelevant.



Bull$h1t! There is nothing to substantiate that. There are also many people on the diet with no ill effects. Furthermore humans evolved eating a diet low in carbs most of the time. Grains in the diet has been a relatively recent development.


There is also a study showing that protein does not cause any problems for people with normal renal function. This was posted earlier by Nightfall.


Thank you for not spamming. Spam is a major pain in the a$$.

The fact that you are a medical student doesn't prove that high protein diets cause kidney damage. In fact, you're being a medical student doesn't impress me at all. I used to be a medical student, and I know first-hand what medical students are like. We had know-it-alls in my class, too, and they usually knew little. In the US, we receive 8 years of tertiary education prior to receiving our medical degree, so the 6th year part also leaves me unimpressed. I now teach medical students, and if one of my students ever made a silly claim like this, they would quickly find themselves with a lot of assigned reading, and a presentation on protein metabolism and renal physiology!

Now whether a protein-only, zero-fat, zero-carbohydrate diet can do kidney damage is probably open to debate. Who would ever design research to study such a ludicrous diet? A high-protein diet is not zero-fat or zero-carbohydrate. You said that "high protein foods will trash your kidneys." "High protein foods", not even "a high protein diet". So you are saying that meat will "trash your kidneys". Or egg whites--will they "trash your kidneys"? How about the whey protein shakes that so many of us take before our workouts and at other times--will they "trash your kidneys" too?

Which intensive care unit are you referring to? How many kids? Out of how many using the diet? Remember that a numerator is meaningless without a denominator. And what are the details of this diet that you don't even know the name of?

Making unsubstantiated claims in any setting is intellectually dishonest. Feeling that you can do so because you are a medical student is an embarrassment to the profession you aspire to join. And assuming that a forum such as this is filled with people who will be fooled by your claims betrays an arrogance that is most unbecoming. Tell us the truth--you got this idea about high-protein diets trashing the kidneys from the popular press, and not from medical school--right?

I challenge you to find even 3 references to studies that support your claim. If you have them I want to read them.

word

Wow, what did beautyqueen do to hurt you guys? It's almost as if being ridiculed and constantly correcting you guys isn't very much fun for other people.

Hint: the personal insults don't convince us of your viewpoint.

Well, I split the thing off the stickies, because Aaron wrote that piece for those interested in adopting a lowered carb style , and was meant for use as a quick reference. It was not meant to invite discussion on low carb vs high carb. That debate has been around for some time, and probably always will be, and to debate it is fine, but do it in it's separate thread, which is what we have now. I think what got the ire up in some of the others was the old thing about how high protein trashes the kidneys, which was probably started by the food processing company lobbyists, and how that person (beautyqueen) thought that as a med student, she was the end all-be all.
Tim