Reader Gordon Liao left a message on 2022-12-27 Is eating too much protein just a waste of money?: Hello, Professor Lin. I have read many articles and I am very grateful for your health knowledge promotion. I would like to ask what you think about t...
Reader Gordon Liao left a message on 2022-12-27 Is eating too much protein just a waste of money?:
Hello, Professor Lin. I have read many articles and I am very grateful for your health knowledge promotion. I would like to ask what you think about the low-protein diet and silly diet advocated by Valter Longo?1. Longo advocates low-protein diets in fish, and his research shows that protein content in diet can affect the growth of cancer cells.
He also mentioned on his website that there is a big difference between dietary prescriptions and mainstream protein intake. "If you are below the age of 65, keep protein intake low (0.31 to 0.36 grams per pound of body weight). "
2.Longo mentioned in the book "The Longevity Diet" that his team uses silence diet to effectively protect patients from the multiple side effects of chemicals. It is also recommended that everyone should conduct mimicking diets regularly.
After reading his books and the long-term population diet mentioned in The Blue Zones, the conclusion points to the low-protein diet of fish (15% of total protein heat) that can make us healthier and longer. Is it difficult to say that mainstream high-protein diets are not good for the body in the long run?
The article sent by this reader was published in the "Science News" "Mid-aged people with low protein diet, and lower cancer mortality rate." Strangely, its update date (2018-2-4) was actually one day earlier than the publication date (2018-2-5). Regardless, this article is a recapitulation of a 2014-3-4 article Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population (low protein intake is related to significant decreases in IGF-1, cancer, and overall mortality in people 65 and under, but not Older Population). The experiments in this study were divided into three parts: (1) population, (2) mice, and (3) cells. The experiments between mice and cells do not have clinical meanings, so I won’t talk much. The population's experiment was to use question papers to investigate, and asked Zhang San and Li Si to answer what food they had eaten in the past 24 hours. Then, based on this answer, we discussed how much protein, carbohydrates, fat, etc. Zhang San and Li Si usually consumed every day.
If the data on population surveys like this are reliable, I think it will be left to you for your own thinking and judgment.
As for the so-called "suspension diet", it means that low-heat diet is adopted during the so-called "suspension" period. In other words, just eat less, not really "break", so it is called "break". As for "the book mentions that their teams use quit diets to effectively protect patients from the influence of multiple side effects of chemicals", it refers to a paper published on August 23, 2022. Fasting renders immunotherapy effective against low-immunogenic breast cancer while reducing side effects (disease makes the immune-age effective against low-immunogenic breast cancer and reduces side effects). However, this study is actually using cell and mouse models for experimentation, rather than "patients".
If you are following my website for a long time, you should know that I have published many articles on "Diet and Health" (hundreds of articles), and many of them are criticizing various self-promoting diets, including high-fat, high-protein, low-protein, high-saccharide, low-saccharide, whole-meat, full-vegetarian, unsalted, stale, etc. For example, please see the healthiest and longest diet of high-saccharide. The biologist's 30-year experience reveals the secret of the meat password: Another extreme of life-saving diet
Eating meat can help prolong life and improve health, and eating vegetarian food is really healthier. True and false information
Readers who have been following my website for a long time should also know that my only suggestion about "diet and health" is "balanced diet".
Of course I know that most people will think this suggestion is to say nothing, but I can guarantee you that this is a way to eat that can never be wrong in the world. However, if you are still unhappy, I have to move out of Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans_2020-2025 (Eat Guide to Americans 2020-2025) issued by the American Agricultural Department. It suggests that the heat consumed by adults should be 10%– 35% from protein, 45%– 65% from carbohydrates, and 20%– 35% from fat.
From this suggestion, it can be seen that the intake of each nutrient is very flexible. Especially in terms of protein, it also covers low and high proteins. Then, why does a diet guide written by hundreds of healthy diet experts give this singular advice? The truth is actually very simple, because everyone has different natural quality, different health conditions, different lifestyles, different preferences, etc. Therefore, no matter which kind of self-proclaimed healthy diet, there is a problem of generalizing it from the side. And that's why my only, ever-changing suggestion is "balanced diet".
There are a few readers who still come to ask what "balanced diet" is, so I had to ask them to refer to the dietary advice of the Hong Kong Department of Hygiene.
Original text: Low protein, quit eating, healthy and long-lasting
