As a leading authority in dietary research, CSIRO was a logical place to start for the many dietitians and consumers who contacted CSIRO with concerns about
the promotion of high protein diets without reliable supporting evidence.
Not exact matches
To provide further evidence that the negative effects
of the low - casein
diets were not limited to very young animals with unusually
high needs for
protein, Campbell found that the apparent loss
of the ability to repair damaged tissue occurred when the 20 % casein
diet was fed during the
promotion period, the same period during which it protected against the growth
of pre-cancerous lesions.
Is the effect
of the
high -
protein diet during the
promotion period a result
of the
protein itself, or is the
protein raising the need for other nutrients needed to protect against cancer?
In the first paper that Campbell published on the
protein - cancer connection (8), he suggested in the introduction that
high protein diets should promote the initiation
of pre-cancerous lesions as well as their
promotion of larger lesions and transformation into true cancers.