The patient has changed his eating habits over the past 6 months. He started to

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The patient has changed his eating habits over the past 6 months. He started to control the amount of calories he consumed and kept it below 3000 kcal/day. He got a membership at the local gym, but due to his busy schedule he wasn’t been able to spend time working out “maybe goes once a week”. Four weeks ago he started a “fad diet” to help him lose more weight. He is 26 years old now, his blood pressure is 125/76, he weighs 200lb, he is 5'9" and his waist circumference is 40in. He recorded what he ate during the last 2 weeks and these are the results: 2700 kcal/day (total daily intake), 1000 kcal from lipids, 1200 kcal from protein and 500 kcal from carbohydrates. . What negative effects could you expect based on the amount of protein he consumes? Explain.

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Protein intake is good for health .But In taking high amount of protein dangerous for health . Normal level of in taking protein is 224 kcal . But he consumes 1200 kcal from protein .The person whom we shown above he is in taking huge amount of protein per day .It leads to several disease like

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