This is a great old question that is more than likely asked in every Health Food Shop, Supplement Store, Pharmacy and Chemist across the country on a daily basis by people coming in who are learning about nutrition and how protein is a big part of their daily diet.

So in saying that, what are the benefits of a high protein diet?

The benefits are numerous (and I will go into a few of the details below), also of note is that you generally won’t find a diet or type of diet that doesn’t include protein in it somewhere.

If it doesn’t have a bit of protein in it, I’d be questioning it because proteins and the amino acids contained in them are the building blocks of life and you can’t live on carbohydrates alone.

Now in regards to the my meaning of a high protein diet, I don’t mean you are having massive amounts of protein each day, I mean high protein because you are eating protein at a level higher than your carbohydrate intake and also at a bit higher rate than is usual for you and you normal diet.

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Protein diets can cover a vast amount of different things as there are so many variations of them to choose from, couple this with the amount of specialised protein diets and also the companies that have their own types of diets and I’ll have no shortage of things to write about in my protein diet category.

High protein diets, low protein diets, protein diets that are named after their inventor, gimmick food type diets, company owned and named diets, daily, monthly and yearly protein diets and all inbetween should be covered here in time.

I come from a sport and body building background in the beginning, so I have seen a lot of different protein filled diets over the years.

As well as trying out many things myself either to improve for sports or to get more ripped.

This was to have more muscle to stand on the bodybuilding stage all shaved up, in my underpants and posing to Total Eclipse of the Heart.

So I will be doing a fair amount of writing about my own experiences with protein diets and writing and researching about others too as I go.

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