[Villages PL]

Atkins, Wheat Belly, and the one I mentioned in my opening post all have something in common: They are high protein, high fat and low carb, not to mention low fiber.

The main reason, as I understand it, is to break the addiction to wheat and other starches. It may be called a lifestyle if you keep doing it after you lose weight but for those who start it to lose weight, it's a diet, in my opinion. A diet suggests you are restricting something like grains/carbs/calories.

The problem I see is that what's good in the short term may not always be good in the long term. It looks like a trade-off as the immediate result is loss of weight and if you lose some weight you are bound to feel better. So people mistakenly think it's a healthy diet. But more often than not these diet/regimens appeal to those who found it difficult to lose weight because they don't like vegetables. So the gimmick with a high protein diet/regimen is: Instead of switching from grain to vegetables they switch from grain to to protein (i.e., lots meats, eggs, dairy, fats).

So, in my opinion, this high protein regimen will eventually fail. It's just going to take some time for most people to realize it. There are too many things lacking like phytochemicals that fight against cancer. And high protein diets are usually very low in fiber, the result of which may lead to the destruction of your digestive system (diverticulosis).