I see I'm getting out gunned by the fat and meat eaters here. That's OK. And I'm not here to do battle.
I don't see much mentioned about cancer and heart disease with your fat and meat diets. It's easy to lose weight.
I should also mention I'm not a big grain eater of bread or rice. Maybe one slice of bread a day. But I eat sweet potatoes and beans about every day.
I won't go into the cancer causing agents in grilled meat or any meat cooked at a high temp.
I'll focus on egg whites. That's the new safe rage for getting "safe protein" these days. So lets take a look.
1. Egg whites are high in the amino Acid Methionine. Rice has 14 times less of this amino acid and beans 7 time less. When one consumes Methionine in a large quantity (like that found in egg whites), it is broken down into sulfuric compounds. these sulfuric compounds are buffered by the calcium of the bones. the result, over time, is osteoporosis and kidney stones.
http://www.vivalis.si/literatu...
2. Methionine is metabolized into homocysteine. This substance is a risk factor associated with heart attacks, strokes, peripheral vascular disease, venous thrombosis, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression.
http://www.pnas.org/content/10... (this study was done with mice, not humans.)
3. Cancer cell metabolism is dependent upon methionine being present in the diet; whereas normal cells can grow on a methionine-free diet feeding off other sulfur-containing amino acids.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
4. Good ol' Insulin like growth factor is raised significantly by Methionine. raised levels of IGF-1 = accelerated aging/tumor promotion.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org...
5. Sulfur from Methionine is known to be toxic to the tissues of the intestine, and to have harmful effects on the human colon, even at low levels, possibly causing ulcerative colitis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... (this study done with rats)
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org...
6. Restriction of methionine in the diet has been shown to prolong the life of experimental animals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://jn.nutrition.org/conten...
also, egg whites are pure protein without any other nutrients, like antioxidants, fiber or carbs. Just as white flour is viewed as empty calories, so should egg whites.