Ordinarily, three grams of water are stored with every gram of carbohydrates in the form of glycogen in the liver and skeletal muscles. When this is sharply limited, the desperate dieters think they are losing up to a pound of fat a day. I'm no scientist, and as such don't have the resources to compile this data, but do understand its repercussions. However, Dr. Atkins, considers ketosis to be a useful and necessary state. If ketosis sounds familiar, it's also the result when insulin-dependent diabetics can't metabolize carbohydrates without their insulin injections, a state leading up to diabetic coma .
Protein is metabolized by the liver and excreted by the kidneys into the urine.
A high protein load causes damage to these organs. High protein diets cause serious metabolic changes that lead to bone loss and kidney stones . Red meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, and eggs are acidic in make up. Vegetable foods are alkaline by nature. The primary buffering system of the body is the bones which dissolve for that purpose into phosphates and calcium.