Article: COLUMN: Protein diet nothing but hype

Kasey Kerber
University Wire
12-02-1999
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- If you haven't heard of the protein diet, chances are you're probably dead.

But if you're currently on the protein diet, well, there's a good chance you'll be dead before too much longer.

Needless to say I'm no fan of the diet that encourages consumption of protein-rich (and usually quite fatty) foods and calls foods with carbohydrates the work of the devil.

Sure, it sounds like the orgasm of all diets -- "Eat hamburgers, chicken, ribs and all the Cracker Barrel cheese you can get your hands on!"

But let's look past the hype for a moment.

We, as a country, are fatter than we have ever been before. There are more ...

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