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Atkins Nutritional Approach Review

The Atkins nutritional diet plan is probably the most popular diet that is on the market today. It is because of this diet that the world seems to have gone carb crazy, in that that the diet meant that you couldn't have any carbohydrates in your diet at all. These rules have since changed a little bit. The new Atkins nutritional plan does allow for some carbs in the diet as there was a great deal of concern about whether or not a diet so high in red meat proteins was healthy or more damaging to the body. The new Atkins plan addresses that concern and had upped the dietary allotments accordingly.

This diet helps you: loose weight quickly and keep it off, boost you energy level, reduce the risk for heart disease; hypertension and diabetes, lower your insulin production, and includes flexible menus that have non-beef options. This diet can also help you to lower your blood sugar level, and customize your menu options as well.

The cost of this diet can be very high in the long run. Even though there are many products to accommodate this diet now, it can be quite costly to purchase these and all of the other menu items as well. Restaurants have also come into the mix and more and more of them are offering low carb items for their menu. No other diet program on the market has garnered so much attention.

Sample meals with this diet are as follows: Breakfast; 2 scrambles eggs, 3 slices of Canadian bacon, and 1 slice of Atkins multi-grain bread.

Lunch: shrimp salad, 2 cups of shrimp salad with oil and vinegar, one half of a small tomato

Dinner: Lamb chops with tomato and olives, one half a cup of sautéed Swiss chard with a tablespoon of lemon juice, a cup of mixed greens and two tablespoons of dressing

Snack: five large black olives and one ounce of cheese.

The Atkins diet program is one that definitely works when it is followed properly and the weight is maintained for as long as you keep it that way. This diet is always making extra steps to ensure that those on it will remain happy, at a good weight and not hungry. For full details on this diet plan, check out Atkins.com.

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Atkins diet information
The Atkins Diet is the most well known of the low-carbohydrate diets. The diet was created in the 70s by Dr Robert C. Atkins more information can be found in the book 'Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution' which is a reworking of the 70's original. To follow the diet you cut out most of your carbohydrate intake but you can eat as much fat and proteins as you want while still losing weight.
When you first start the Adkins diet almost all carbohydrates are eliminated from the diet this induces a state called ketosis where the body is tricked into thinking it is starving. Due to the low amount of carbohydrates in the Atkins diet the body burns glycogen instead of its preferred source of energy glucose (The breakdown product of carbohydrates). The body stores three times as water as glycogen so as it is burnt during the induction phase there is a large initial loss of water and therefore weight. This large initial weight loss is a main reason for the Atkins diets popularity. However many doctors say that ketosis is bad because it puts a strain on your kidneys and in prolonged ketosis muscle tissue is broken down. The initial water weight loss is put back on very quickly if you stop the diet
After the couple of weeks on the Atkins Diet, you slowly reintroduce carbohydrates into your diet until you stop losing weight this gives you your maximum carbohydrate limit and you must stay under it in order to carry on with weight loss.

Atkins Diet : Reasons for

It actually works
There is a large initial weight loss
Can eat as much protein and fat as you want
Atkins Diet : Reasons against

The initial loss of water returns very quickly
Has a high drop out rate for the induction phase
Carbohydrates are very low in this diet..
Ketosis strains the liver
Constipation can be experienced due to lack of fibre
High cholesterol in the diet
Associated with heart disease. High in
saturated fat
Cancer fighting substances founds in fruits and vegetables are low in this diet

Atkins Diet : Verdict

Not a long term viable diet, as it doesn't promote healthy eating and cuts out a proportion of foods and has unhealthy side effects. It does however work (which most don't) and is quite simple to follow which will always ensure a legion of devotees.

Note: If you find yourself feeling weak, you may not be getting enough carbohydrates. Try adding a little more to see if it helps.
When following this diet it is very important to drink no less than eight glasses of water



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Atkins "Nightmare" Diet

When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years, this is the most dangerous to the public if followed for any length of time."

When the chief health officer for the State of Maryland, was asked "What's wrong with the Atkins Diet?" He replied "What's wrong with... taking an overdose of sleeping pills? You are placing your body in jeopardy." He continued "Although you can lose weight on these nutritionally unsound diets, you do so at the risk of your health and even your life."

The Chair of Harvard's nutrition department went on record before a 1973 U.S. Senate Select Committee investigating fad diets: "The Atkins Diet is nonsense... Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice."

The Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Food and Nutrition testified before the Senate Subcommittee as to why the AMA felt they had to formally publish an official condemnation of the Atkins Diet: "A careful scientific appraisal was carried out by several council and staff members, aided by outside consultants. It became apparent that the [Atkins] diet as recommended poses a serious threat to health."

The warnings from medical authorities continue to this day. "People need to wake up to the reality," former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes, that the Atkins Diet is "unhealthy and can be dangerous."

The world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, calls the Atkins Diet "a nightmare of a diet." The official spokesperson of the American Dietetic Association elaborated: "The Atkins Diet and its ilk--any eating regimen that encourages gorging on bacon, cream and butter while shunning apples, all in the name of weight loss--are a dietitian's nightmare." The ADA has been warning Americans about the potential hazards of the Atkins Diet for almost 30 years now. Atkins dismissed such criticism as "dietician talk". "My English sheepdog," Atkins once said, "will figure out nutrition before the dieticians do."

The problem for Atkins (and his sheepdog), though, is that the National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious scientific body in the United States, agrees with the AMA and the ADA in opposing the Atkins Diet. So does the American Cancer Society; and the American Heart Association; and the Cleveland Clinic; and Johns Hopkins; and the American Kidney Fund; and the American College of Sports Medicine; and the National Institutes of Health.

In fact there does not seem to be a single major governmental or nonprofit medical, nutrition, or science-based organization in the world that supports the Atkins Diet. As a 2004 medical journal review concluded, the Atkins Diet "runs counter to all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations."

A 2003 review of Atkins "theories" in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition concluded: "When properly evaluated, the theories and arguments of popular low carbohydrate diet books... rely on poorly controlled, non-peer-reviewed studies, anecdotes and non-science rhetoric. This review illustrates the complexity of nutrition misinformation perpetrated by some popular press diet books. A closer look at the science behind the claims made for [these books] reveals nothing more than a modern twist on an antique food fad."

http://www.atkinsexposed.org/

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Atkins Diet : Reasons against

1.) The initial loss of water returns very quickly

True if you go back to eating salty junk foods and carbs. You'll want to start adding your healthy carbs back very slowly by climbing the carbohydrate ladder. Plus, you always lose some water weight on any diet.

2.) Has a high drop out rate for the induction phase

The drop out rate with Atkins is the lowest of any other diets from what I've read.

3.) Carbohydrates are very low in this diet.

That's true. The induction phase is 20 grams of carbs per day and lasts for 2 weeks. Then you gradually add back 5 grams of carbs per week until you find your ACE where you stop losing and then drop back by 5 grams.

The object is to turn your body into a fat burning machine instead of getting your energy from carbs.

4.) Ketosis strains the liver

Being in ketosis by following a low carbohydrate diet is NOT dangerous. The human body was designed to use ketones very efficiently as fuel in the absence of glucose. However, the word ketosis is often confused with a similar word, ketoacidosis. The Atkins plan should not be harmful unless you already have a liver or kidney problem. So it's important to get checked out by your doctor as with any diet program.

5.) Constipation can be experienced due to lack of fibre

Any change in your eating habits can cause problems. Even going to a high fiber diet can cause constipation. Drink lots of water, eat your veggies, exercise and take a fiber supplement. It's that simple.

6.) High cholesterol in the diet. Associated with heart disease. High in saturated fat

Many, many people have reported that their cholesterol numbers have greatly improved after following the Atkins plan. Fat satisfied hunger for longer periods of time and it takes less of it to do so. You end up eating less food in the long run and therefore take in less calories. As a person climbs the carbohydrate ladder they are encouraged to cut back on their fat intake. You're also encouraged to eat plenty of "good" fats that come from nuts and seeds and fish.

7.) Cancer fighting substances founds in fruits and vegetables are low in this diet

The Atkins diet is very low carb for the first 2 weeks, but you're still encouraged to eat vegetables. And as you climb the carb ladder the first rung consists of adding more vegetables to the plan. And fruit is number 4. Of course Atkineers are always encouraged to take a good multi-vitamin while on the program. One without iron because you get plenty of iron from the diet.

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It all started with a small booklet entitled Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public, not written by a dietician or a doctor, but by an undertaker named William Banting. It became one of the most famous books on obesity ever written. First published in 1863, it went into many editions and continued to be published long after the author's death. The book was revolutionary and it should have changed western medical thinking on diet for weight loss forever. http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p125.htm

Low carb dieting has been around since the 19th. century. But it was Dr. Atkins who made it famous! :grin:

[Ian Robertson]

I like Blessed's assessment. I couldn't lay it out any better than that. Ketogenic diets like Atkins are not recommended.

[itscasper77]

i have tried a lot of diets, and the south beach diet worked for me. i lost 30 pounds in 4 weeks. it was healthy weight loss, and i felt great doing it.

http://www.southbeachdietheart.com/a...beach_diet.asp

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I still say if The Atkins Diet is/was all it is hyped to be why did the founder die of obesity related conditions