List Of High-protein Diets

High-protein diets are, by their nature, relatively low-carbohydrate diets. These diets are protein-sparing, which means that they help to keep your body from losing lean body mass--muscle, bones and organ tissue--and instead allow your body to use stored fat as fuel. Most high-protein diets are known as ketogenic diets, which means that they rely on a chemical reaction called ketosis to help you lose fat while maintaining muscle. These types of diets are especially popular with bodybuilders and athletes who need to lose weight while still building or maintaining muscle mass.

Protein Power LifePlan

The Protein Power LifePlan is a high-protein diet developed by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades. It is a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that the Drs. Eades call "a new comprehensive blueprint for optimal health." According to Dr. Mike Eades, most of the diseases of modern civilization, including obesity and diabetes, arose after societies began to form around the agricultural cultivation of grains. In the span of human evolution, that isn't a very long time, and Dr. Eades thinks that it is highly unlikely that humans have evolved to eat processed foods, grains and sugars. Instead, the Protein Power LifePlan recommends eating in a manner similar to how hunter-gatherer societies most likely ate in pre-agricultural times. This means a diet of mostly animal proteins and animal fats with some vegetables, fruits and nuts.

PaNu--Paleo Nutrition

PaNu is a high-protein diet developed by Dr. Kurt G. Harris. Harris' philosophy is similar to the Drs. Eades. Harris refers to PaNu as a diet based on paleoanthropology and evolutionary biology. The basic recommendations support eating a high-fat, high-protein animal-based diet while minimizing or eliminating gluten-based grains, sugar in all of its forms, grain and seed oils and dairy. Harris also recommends eating only two meals per day and getting adequate vitamin D, either through supplementation or time spent in the sun.

Atkins

The Atkins diet is primarily a low-carbohydrate diet; however, by its very nature it is also a high-protein diet because calories from grain and sugar-based carbohydrates are replaced with proteins and fats. Compared with Protein Power LifePlan and PaNu, the Atkins Diet has relatively few restrictions on sources of protein or fat. Instead, the main restriction with Atkins is eliminating carbohydrates that come from sugars, starches and grain-based carbohydrates. On the Atkins diet, as long as a food falls below a certain level of carbohydrates per serving, it is allowed. The diet is based purely on the science of ketosis and using carbohydrate restriction to get your body to use its own fat as fuel while sparing muscle mass.