[Revelation 911]

re your #8 - what concerns me with the diet though is the protein overdosing that occurs. Its my understanding as a lay bacon lover and kidney stone sufferer that high levels of protein are hard on kidneys. Can anyone verify that? - I worry, as with any diet, if the causal behavior for the obesity is rectified or will they revert when the diet stops.

Now, as for bacon - canadian, hickory or maple?

[hobbes1]

if the causal behavior for the obesity is rectified or will they revert when the diet stops.

If you return to your prior eating habits, you will get fatter. You need to reform your eayting habits in general IMHO BEFORE going on the diet, so when you go off, you return to a healthy diet.

[the_doc]

High protein levels are thought to be hard on the kidneys in some cases. But even this is controversial.

Anyway, I would go with the Zone Diet.

[Dana113]

re your #8 - what concerns me with the diet though is the protein overdosing that occurs. Its my understanding as a lay bacon lover and kidney stone sufferer that high levels of protein are hard on kidneys. Can anyone verify that? - I worry, as with any diet, if the causal behavior for the obesity is rectified or will they revert when the diet stops.

The diet is a LIFESTYLE. However, as with any diet, if you go off it and go back to your old way of eating, the diet obviously will not work. A diet cannot work if you are not on it.

That is why there is the Atkins Maintenence diet that you stay on for a lifetime.

Also, protein is only hard on already disease kidneys. It is another urban myth that protein harms kidneys or the liver. There ain't a SINGLE documented case or study that shows such a thing. But oddly, it is oft repeated. Usually by low fat cultists.