Some sneaky High-Fat foods

The high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets have been popular for a long time. I remember as a kid my dad took my brother and I to Buster's Bareque and they were adverticing themselves as a great place to eat if you're on the Atkin's diet. That was the first time I ever heard about the low-carb, high-protein diet. But there are problems with this diet, including the fact that some high protien foods are loaded with fat.


Dancers love the high-protein, low-carb diets. You get the engery without the fat, right? Wrong. In a study of adult and adolecent dancers, 40-55% of the dancers diet was made up of fat, this is nearly twice the recommended amount. This could be because they are pouring butter over everything they eat, or mistaking high-fat foods for high-protein foods. In cheese, peanut butter, red meat, nuts, and eggs the main macronutrient is fat.

For me, protein has always been the hardeset macronutrient to get enought of because I tend to avoid meat as much as possible. So I've found that drinking (nonfat) milk and eating yogurt are two great ways to get protein, along with beans, fish, and lean meats such as chicken or turkey.

So remember to keep a good body fat percentage while getting enough protein.