Protein and carbohydrate-free diets have been in vogue for almost fifty years, think of the Scarsdale and Atkins diets that were raging in the 1970s and 1980s: they are diets without complex carbohydrates, which only accept vegetables and some fruit with limitations. as a resource of carbohydrates, but they banish or almost banish cereals, potatoes and cereal products, therefore bread, pasta, pizza. Surely protein diets make and have made the fortune of those who conceived them: think of Dukan’s high-protein diet, who was disbarred but who achieved stardom with the Dukan method ; or the Berry Sears Zone diet, which is a disguised protein diet, with its proteins at every meal and the trick of eliminating or almost eliminating “white carbohydrates” or all carbohydrates that are not vegetables.
But Doctor Berrino. epidemiologist, famous for his interventions on healthy diet and proper nutrition, he does not fit: in this video for La Fucina he explains why the carbohydrate-free diet should be avoided, despite the temptation of fast weight loss. Eating more protein makes you lose weight in the first half, but makes us fat later: according to Berrino, starting weight loss is caused by metabolic stress, to which the body responds by adapting and gaining weight later. Also, a carbohydrate-free diet is unhealthyEating too much protein lowers the immune system and intoxicates us.