NEW YORK | Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:42pm EDT
(Reuters Health) - The high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets many people turn to for weight loss might have potentially harmful long-term effects on the colon, a small study hints.
In a study of 17 obese men, UK researchers found that a protein-heavy, low-carb diet created certain changes in the colon that could, over time, contribute to colon cancer risk.
The study looked only at short-term shifts in certain compounds that are byproducts of metabolism, and not actual disease risk. So it does not show whether high-protein diets really raise the risk of any colon diseases.
But the findings raise that possibility, the researchers report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition…. READ FULL STORY
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MY COMMENTS:
After I read this, I wondered why they published this study at all. Only 17 people were studied, they were obese to begin with, and the report even indicates it “…does not show whether high-protein diets really raise the risk” of cancer.
How high protein diets may affect folks like us who have hypoproteinemia, I’m not sure.
I can say I’m prepared to keep on a high protein diet because not having enough, I think, is worse than having too much.
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