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Low Carbs Research Paper

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The diet you've been doing is a popular low carb diet. Most of the food you have been intaking while on the Atkins diet has a high level of protein. As you know, protein is good to build up muscles, but you need other types of nutrients, too. Janine tried to tell you that the high amount of nitrogen from protein can wreck your kidneys, but that isn't really true. You really should be considering a more balanced diet, though. You see, if you don't consume enough carbs then you won't have a supply of energy that your body regularly relies on. When you're out of carbs, your body burns fats. You're skinny, so you won't have much of that to burn. Then you'll start to burn protein as energy, which isn't good for you. It's like your body eating away its own …show more content…

Having low carbs could lead to a offset of electrolytes in your blood. WebMD.com told me that this can have an effect on kidney function. Your kidneys probably won't take much affect from your diet, but it could make things worse for your brain. You're brain needs carbs as energy and without glucose, you could feel light headed and have a harder time thinking and remembering things. Our bodies contain hormones that signal our body in different ways. There are two main hormones that I'm going to give you a quick lesson on to let you know how hormones can have a play on weight gain/loss. Ever wonder how your body knows when you're hungry? Well, a hormone called ghrelin (AKA the "hunger hormone") sends messages to our brain to tell us when we are hungry. Lately, you've kind of been ignoring ghrelin, so that's why you may have felt a little grumpy while on your diet. The higher ghrelin level you have, the harder it is to resist food. So fuel up once in a while to resist the urge to eat lots later, leading to weight gain. I got a lot of information about these two hunger hormones on the WebMd website, I read an article called Your 'Hunger Hormones' that gave ,e pretty good

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