Diets high in meat, also known as high-protein diets, involve limiting carbohydrate intake, and often promote large amounts of dairy and red meat. The Mayo Clinic states that a high-protein diet generally isn't harmful if followed for a short time. A high-meat diet should still be discussed with your doctor first and monitored closely as you progress.
Atkins Diet
The Atkins Diet asserts that when you eat fewer carbohydrate foods and increase your meat intake, your body will switch to burning fat instead of carbohydrates as its primary fuel source. The diet recommends eating mostly meat and cheese for protein, along with fiber and fat. There are four phases of the diet, and each phase allows a certain amount of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. All meat is allowed on the Atkins diet, and each phase should be discussed first with your doctor.
The Zone Diet
The Zone Diet is a higher-in-meat diet that recommends a balance between 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat. TheZoneDietInfo.com explains that maintaining a high meat and protein, low-carbohydrate diet program can reduce both hunger and compulsion to eat. The Zone Diet encourages foods such as fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts, leafy green vegetables, sufficient protein consumption, and eight glasses of water everyday and recommends avoiding processed food and saturated fats. Discuss the Zone Diet with your family physician before starting.
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach Diet is divided into three different phases, all of which are higher in meat and protein. The first phase is lower in carbohydrates, and your allowance in carbs slowly increases as you progress in the stages. Protein sources from meat that are encouraged throughout all three phases are fish and other seafood, skinless white-meat poultry, lean cuts of beef, and soy protein, explains SouthBeachDiet.com. Be sure to first go through all three phases with your family physician before following the South Beach Diet.
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