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cost. It is also difficult to store protein as fat. Yes, excess calorie intake will lead to fat accumulation. However, protein would go through a process called De Novo lipogenesis. This also requires a lot of energy and is something the human body would rather not do. Think for a minute if you had to make a soda can out of a piece of wood. It would require a lot of time effort and energy on your part, and you probably rather wait until a tin can just came your way, right?

Despite what many anti-protein advocates will try to push on you, an increased protein intake, for the apparently healthy individual does not cause kidney stones, gall stones, kidney disease, gout arthritis, or cause your liver to fail. For people who have certain metabolic defects or are afflicted with certain diseases, such as gout or kidney failure, yes high protein intake can make the problem worse. But for the healthy individual it will not cause the conditions to manifest. When you stop to think about it, the human body is just a big hair protein bag full of water. Why would such an essential nutrient like protein cause so many problems? So give your protein intake a little boost. But as with everything in life, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing - even water! Have some more egg whites with breakfast, chicken breast with lunch and try some fish with dinner. On a side note, Fatty fish - Tuna, salmon etc are a good source of those Omega-3's.So Eat up!

High Fiber Vegetables: Mom was right - Eat your vegetables. But logic was a little different than what we are talking about here. Fiber is a part of plant material that humans can not completely digest. We do not have the right enzymes to break it down. It passes through your digestive track largely intact. Our bodies put up a pretty good fight to work it down as much as possible. Starting with Chewing. When was the last time you sat down to a bowl of raw broccoli and tried to finish it off dry? That is a lot of work! Your jaw is tired after 5 minutes. the chewing alone requires almost as much caloric energy as there is in the broccoli itself. Researchers have coined the phrase 'Negative Calories'.

This pertains to a lot of the hard, crunchy, plain vegetables like celery and broccoli. The caloric cost of chewing, digesting and metabolizing the plant material is actually greater than the total calories in the food!. It is virtually impossible to eat to many vegetables when you are trying to lose weight. However, if you are not accustomed

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