TIME BOMB

TIME BOMB

I consider fie emphasis on high-protein diets like telling someone to bury a time bomb in his body. The steaks and chops, the butter and cheese are the elements in that time bomb. By consuming these products you are planting an explosive around the cardiovascular system and the heart.

There is a fuse, too. That fuse is your protein habit.

In making this statement I realize that I have already antagonized 95% of the diet doctors and nutritionists who swear by the High-Protein Bible. But I am not displeased about their anger. I have seen too much evidence of the damage caused by their advocacy to take their sputtering seriously.

Thus I have no sympathy for those doctors who blithely prescribe a high-protein diet to their desperate patients. Frankly, I feel ashamed for what they do to medical standards.

I have seen gentlemen with M.D. behind their names and with the most sincere smile hook their patients on the protein habit. I have asked myself whether they had forgotten their school books. Whether they had an inkling of the tremendous load they were putting on the patient's digestive and metabolic system. Whether they knew that the high-protein intake is one of the reasons for the dismal health statistics in our country!

In the following chapters you will learn some astonishing facts concerning the hazards of the high-protein habit. For now, let's look quickly at . . .