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American scientists from Indiana University found that the harm of diet with an emphasis on protein foods - the so-called Atkins diet - was at one time greatly exaggerated.

Recall that the first nutritionists expressed doubts about the safety of low-carbohydrate diet. And the Atkins diet, with its high concentration of proteins, in their opinion, could harm the kidneys. However, as it turned out as a result of recent research, some people protein diet   no harm. In particular, it is absolutely not dangerous for people with healthy kidneys.

Previously it was thought that high levels of protein in the diet increases the rate of filtration in the kidney, thereby causing damage to the tissues of these organs - like the head of research Alon Friedman. In order to obtain direct evidence of these concerns, Friedman and his team compared the effects on renal function of two diets - as a low-carb, and one that is rich in protein. And they watched - for two years - for more than three hundred (307) full of men and women who had no previous kidney no problems.

Two years later, researchers tested the volunteers how their kidneys.

It turned out that, according to Friedman, "In healthy people with excess weight, we found no evidence that a diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein are dangerous to the health of the kidneys."

  At the same time, Friedman emphasized, there is no guarantee that protein diet will be absolutely safe for those who adhere to such a way of eating more than two years, or suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease.

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