Risk of High Protein Diets
by Deborah H. Schreiben
Overview
High-protein diets, which typically require dieters to consume 30 to 40 percent of their total food intake in the form of protein, have helped many people lose weight.
Risk Factors and Causes of Obesity
In scientific terms, obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. What causes this imbalance between calories in and calories out may differ from one person to another.
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Risk Factors
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Nutritional Risk Factors
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Risk Factors for Calcium Deficiency
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RISK ASSESSMENT AND FOOD SAFETY
Basic Concepts
Risk assessment is a scientific undertaking having as its objective a characterization of the nature and likelihood of harm resulting from human exposure to agents in the environment.
Risk for diseases
If you are obese, you are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides, coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke, and sleep apnea, among other conditions.
Risk Factors of Overweight and Obesity
Learn about the risk factors of being overweight or obese.
Risk of Disease
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Risk factors you can change
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Causes/Risk Factors
Diet (Likely to be the biggest factor)
Particularly western diets, which tend to be high in saturated fat.
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Risk factors include:
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Long-term use of corticosteroid medication
Maternal osteoporosis
Smoking
Heavy drinking
Lack of exercise
Low body weight
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Risk for heart disease and stroke increases with rising blood cholesterol levels.
Risk of nutritional deficiency especially if intake of leafy green vegetables is not adequate.
Which is true no matter how you eat.
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Your risk for certain diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and certain cancers increases with a higher BMI.
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General risk factors for heart disease such as high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol are also associated with being overweight.
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Decreases your risk for developing cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes.
Decreases your risk for developing many types of cancers.
Gives you a more positive outlook on life.
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Who is most at risk?
Young children and pregnant women are at higher risk of iron deficiency because of rapid growth and higher iron needs.
Adolescent girls and women of childbearing age are at risk due to menstruation.
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They are essential to normal growth in young children and consumption of these may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
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(1) The article "High-meat diets and cancer risk" by Sheila Bingham in 1999 provides information about the correlation between high protein consumption and the risks associated with certain cancers.
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Reducing Body Fat Reduces Disease Risk
The good news is that reducing body fat reduces the risk of disease. At the University of Pittsburgh, researchers studied 159 people as they followed a weight management program.
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