High protein diet helps weight loss: study

However, the women on the higher protein diet lost nearly twice as much weight and fat as those on the carbohydrate diet.
"The women reported the higher protein diet kept them fuller for longer and had a positive effect on self-esteem," researcher Dr Helen O'Connor said.
"They also had better iron levels, compared with the women on the higher carbohydrate diet."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10780834

The key question to this would be how long they kept the weight off.

What I have learned after 50 years of dieting that resulted in obesity, is that the high protein, low carbohydrate diet does result in fast weight loss - and equally fast weight gain back to an amount about ten to twenty pounds higher than the starting point. Too bad they didn't have a third group of women on an exclusively raw food vegan diet. That's what I'm doing at the moment. The raw food vegan diet results in a very fast weight loss if it is also low calorie (it's quite possible to eat 3000 calories a day on raw foods when nuts are a staple part of the diet) and the weight stays off, even after starting to eat cooked foods again, as long as grains are avoided.

I lost 80 pounds four years ago while eating only raw fruits and vegetables with a few nuts and seeds thrown in, and kept it off without caloric restrictions for a year and a half. Then I started letting bread creep back into my diet and eventually was eating a full wheat diet again. The weight started to climb again very slowly, until I had gained 30 pounds back. This is absolutely contrary to the normal dieter's experience, which is that as soon as a diet is abandoned, the weight zooms up and over the top quickly. I credit the difference to the manner of weight loss - raw foods - because that was the only difference in the diet and it was the first time I had ever had that experience.

Due to the trauma in my life last summer, I lost 20 of those pounds, then climbed back onto the raw food regimen in November and have since lost another 50 pounds. Very occasionally I will cook up 3 or 4 eggs, but other than that, I'm sticking to raw vegetables and apples, with some berry type fruits occasionally and a treat of some nuts with honey in the evening if my caloric intake has been low enough during the day to justify it. I'm losing an average of a half pound a day at the moment, but that is likely to taper off as I approach a more normal weight.

Even the guy who was the low-carb guru said his diet was unbalanced.  I did it, and it's right in the front of his book.  He said all diets are unbalanced (low-fat, no-fat, low-carb, etc. etc. etc.) and that's why people lose weight on them.

His point with his diet was that you could eat all you wanted of no-carb food, and in moderation of low-carb food.

But it's UNBALANCED.  Your body isn't getting the nutrients it needs. That's why people can't maintain the weight loss on those diets.  They are starving and they finally break.  There is one way to weight loss that works for good: eat less, move more.  Period.

I think raw is probably the best way to go, but I know people who can't handle totally raw.  They get bursitis.  So they do a combo of raw/steamed.  The truth is, we have to listen to our bodies.  People aren't real good at that.  I would suspect some people could eat meat until the cows come home.  (Sorry)  But, and I'll tell this story again, we have a friend who says he feels absolutely terrible when he eats meat.  I don't feel anything at all, but when I eat any of the grasses: wheat, rice, sugar cane, oats, etc., I feel horrible, heart races, skips beats, blood pressure goes to the moon.

Mostly people would just do better if they ate real food.  Shop the outside of the supermarket if you can't do farmer's markets or grow your own.  I read a great thing last night:  food shouldn't have labels.  If it has a label, it's not real.  Pretty easy to figure that one out when we shop for food, eh?

Gluten sensititivity I believe is a big factor with respect to grain sensitivity. As per a high protein diet, I believe the source of the protein is also critical. Not all proteins are created equal.

My issue has nothing to do with gluten sensitvity.  I've tried the gluten-free stuff.  Same results.
 
And rice doesn't have gluten; nor does sugar.
 
It's definitely something else for me.  Oh, and I can't eat molasses.  Same results.  Sugar cane.  I love molasses so much.  :(

I suspect it could be a combination of contaminated water and/or pesticides. Perhaps even a result of genetic modifications. 

Sorry, I eat organic.  ;)

We need protein at all stages of life.  High protein diet is a good way to lose weight because protein is able to satisfy hunger. Dairy products are the best source of proteins. 
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The only diet that never gets a lot of air time?

EAT LESS, MOVE MORE

Nobody can make a million dollar off those four words.

The other thing all the diet experts don't say:  listen to your own body.  The doctors don't say it, either.  There's a reason for that.

Anyway, people will continue to spend money, hoping for the miracle diet.  It ain't out there.

But louie will tell you for free: eat less, move more.

(Now if I would just take my own advice, I'd get rid of fifteen pounds.) ;)

That inspiring video Em put up about the disabled soldier who started doing yoga....now there's an answer.  Ain't no shortcuts, but the finish is worth it.

here's an excellent example of the food mind set in this country and the general attitude of glorious consumption beyond belief.

I present to you....Epic Mealtime.

Some protein food for weight loss are; seafood (some fish have important omega 3 oils), low fat dairy like silk milk and cottage cheese. Legumes and beans are the best sources of vegetable protein. Brown rice and whole grain breads, crackers and cereals, like oatmeal, provides some protein and lots of healthy fiber.
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