Low-protein diet

A low-protein diet is a diet in which people decrease their intake of protein. A low-protein diet is used as a therapy for inherited metabolic disorders, such as phenylketonuria and homocystinuria, and can also be used to treat kidney or liver disease. Low protein consumption appears to reduce the risk of bone breakage, presumably through changes in calcium homeostasis.^[1] Consequently, there is no uniform definition of what constitutes low-protein, because the amount and composition of protein for an individual with phenylketonuria would differ substantially from one with homocystinuria or tyrosinemia.^[2]

^ Feskanich, Diane; Willett, Walter C.; Stampfer, Meir J.; Colditz, Graham A. (1996). "Protein Consumption and Bone Fractures in Women". American Journal of Epidemiology. 143 (5): 472–9. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008767. PMID 8610662.
^ Zea-Rey, Alexandra V.; Cruz-Camino, Héctor; Vazquez-Cantu, Diana L.; Gutiérrez-García, Valeria M.; Santos-Guzmán, Jesús; Cantú-Reyna, Consuelo (27 November 2017). "The Incidence of Transient Neonatal Tyrosinemia Within a Mexican Population" (PDF). Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening. 5: 232640981774423. doi:10.1177/2326409817744230.

[pmid8610662-1] Feskanich, Diane; Willett, Walter C.; Stampfer, Meir J.; Colditz, Graham A. (1996). "Protein Consumption and Bone Fractures in Women". American Journal of Epidemiology. 143 (5): 472–9. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008767. PMID 8610662.

[2] Zea-Rey, Alexandra V.; Cruz-Camino, Héctor; Vazquez-Cantu, Diana L.; Gutiérrez-García, Valeria M.; Santos-Guzmán, Jesús; Cantú-Reyna, Consuelo (27 November 2017). "The Incidence of Transient Neonatal Tyrosinemia Within a Mexican Population" (PDF). Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening. 5: 232640981774423. doi:10.1177/2326409817744230.

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