It is a matter of taste preference. Joan Pearson - Yes. Recent studies have shown that skipping meals lowers your metabolism and many people are moving towards three meals and small snacks. We need to take into consideration total calories because if you want to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you take in. I have friends who have lost weight simply by cutting out bread, potatoes, pasta, and sugar from their diets.
Some people go lower with the fat and higher with the carbohydrate.
Carbohydrate is our body's first source of energy. It can also promote cancers such Prostate and Colon cancers. A high protein diet can also lead the body to lose calcium which can lead to Osteoporosis. A high protein diet is also hard on the kidneys because the kidneys must filter the breakdown products of protein. This is also not a diet that people can live with for a long time because these carbohydrate food are foods that we love.