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Here’s a brief summary of the Atkins diet. The Atkins Diet was designed by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1970s. He designed the diet to follow forever. That is, the diet is more of a lifestyle than a fad diet. The Dr. was a proponent of ketogenic fat burning. This is accomplished by consuming few than 40 grams of carbohydrate daily. He also suggested using dietary supplements to maintain nutrition within the body’s systems. The Atkins Diet has 4 stages: the Induction Diet, the Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL) Diet, the Pre-Maintenance Diet, and lastly the Lifetime Maintenance Diet.

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Atkins Forever? How Long Should You Stay On The Atkins Diet?


by Jessica A. Andersen

The Atkins Diet was designed by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1970s. He designed the diet to followed forever. That is, the diet is more of a lifestyle than a fad diet. The Dr. was a proponent of ketogenic fat burning. This is accomplished by consuming few than 40 grams of carbohydrate daily. He also suggested using dietary supplements to maintain nutrition within the body’s systems.

The Atkins Diet is divided into four stages: the Induction diet, the Ongoing Weight Loss diet, the Pre-Maintenance diet, and finally the Lifetime Maintenance diet.

The Induction Diet Stage severely limits carb intake, only 20 grams are allowed for 14 days. The recommended source of carbs is low starch vegetables. Following this stage is the OWL diet.

The OWL phase allows for the reintroduction of certain good carbs but the levels are kept below 40 grams a day. Dieters stay on OWL until they reach their ideal weight. Once the ideal weight is reached dieters transition into the Pre-Maintenance diet, where they experiment with reintroducing certain good carbs until they discover their carb tolerance level (the total carb grams they can consume in a day and not gain weight).

When dieters finally comprehend the total number of grams of carbs they can consume and maintain their ideal weight they’ve reach Lifetime Maintenance. Here the participants will continually avoid processed foods, sugar, white flour, and hydrogenated oils and fats.

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Low to no Carb Diets: Will they Help Me Lose Weight?


by Ricardo d Argence

Studies have shown that low to no carb diets actually help in weight losing, in fact, it is said to be even more effective than low fat diets. But, do you know that there are quite some negative effects that results from this kind of diets?

So will cutting carbs help me lose weight? First you have to understand that not all carbs are created the same. They have all been banded together but some carbs are necessary for a healthy and fulfilled lifestyle. So how do you tell a good carb from a bad one? Well. lets go back to basics. There are two basic types of carbohydrates: Firstly the Sugars, which are known as a simple carbohydrate. Secondly the Starches, which are known as complex carbohydrates.

The major difference between these carbohydrates is the time taken by your body to digest them. The simple carbohydrate is digested quickly where as the complex carbohydrate takes longer to be digested.

Many foods that contain simple carbohydrates, like pizza, chocolate and cakes also contain a lot of added sugar. Though contrary to popular belief you cannot get the same results eating apples, bananas, grapes, & raisins. They may not be complex carbs, but they are efficient in that they supply essential nutrients and vitamins.

Going on low carb diet means stopping the intake of carbohydrates and it helps in not putting on weight, but actually everyone must have at least 45% -65%of carbohydrates depending on each individual.

Ketosis is a metabolic disorder resulting from the body being starved of carbohydrates over a period of time. In the event your body is too weak to endure this type of low to no carb diet, you will feel fatigued lacking energy to perform most tasks, and may also cause loss of sleep. But, regaining your weight only needs high carbohydrate foods, just increase your consumption on these foods, like rice and potato, and surely you will have that weight again.

It’s just a vicious cycle. At first you will lose the weight but after that you will have to conpensate with a lower level of energy and when you try to get back to where you were the weight will come back. Maintainging low to no carb diets can cause deterioration to parts of your body giving you long term side effects that outweigh the short term benefits.

So, will low to no carb diets help me? Reducing carbohydrates from your diet will enable you to lose weight only if you cut the right kind of carbohydrate and if you make other diet and lifestyle changes at the same time.

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Low carb diets- Do they really work to trim our weight?


by Simon

Many of the studies have revealed that obesity has become a major challenge especially to the western countries where in it is estimated that roughly there are around 60 million overweight people in US alone & this number is expected to climb sharply in the coming years. The only solution to this problem seems to be adopting to low carb diets that not only are tastier but helps us to control obesity in a phased manner.

Medical community have reveals us that carbohydrates are solely responsible for providing energy for majority of cells in our body & cells in our brain as well. It is therefore evident that carbohydrates are utmost necessary for our body but needs to be avoided from consuming them in large proportions so that they are able to make a damage to our healthy living. Most of the processed junk stuffs like the colas, pizzas, burgers ,etc have large proportions of carbohydrates , rapid weight gains & obesity are inevitable after consuming them. The solution to this grave problem lies in us to adopt to low carb diets that will help us to trim our weight in a gradual manner.

Varieties of different carbohydrates exists like simple carbohydrates & complex carbohydrates. Examples of simple carbohydrates are honey, sugar & flour. The disadvantage of using them is they drastically reduce our energy levels after they taken in. More over complex carbohydrates absorb in our body pretty slowly & consists of starch & fiber rich foods like rice , potatoes, fruits, grains, wheat etc.

On the other hand, it is true that simple carbohydrate foods does not offer any nutritional values but can also result in several health issues. But the low carb diets have high protein & mineral contents & are pretty tasty & nutritious to consume. The real fact is that simple carbs Foods like the refined sugar, bread & rice usage can also cause cavities in the long run.

It is proved that according to medical sciences that low carb diets are extremely healthy, tasty & nutritious even in the long run & can be easily followed without any problem. Quite a few diet programs are available like the Dr. Atkins diet, south beach diet, Hollywood diet, etc to name a few & these programs recommend us to stick to their respective diet choices based on the programs chosen.

Meat & eggs, pork, lamb, salmon & hard boiled eggs are some of the Foods that are prescribed under the low carb diet plans or recipes & these are considered safe for consumption to achieve our final objective. These are some of the suggested low carb diets that most of the health gurus wants us to adopt.

Most of the health gurus insist of low fat vegetarian diets which have high protein content with them. They include eggplants, spinach, broccoli, tomato etc to name a few. It is also preferred to have vegetable salads in our diet and you can garnish them with either crumbled bacon, boiled eggs or mushrooms which may form the main menu for our vegetarian carb diet plans to have healthier outlook in the long run.

To conclude, the real secret of being healthy in our middle ages as well as in the long term demands us to migrate to low carb diet plans which also relieve us from major health hazards like the high blood pressure & cholesterol. Apart from this, you will be able to maintain healthy weight through out your life span.

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Low carb diets- What does carbohydrates do for our body?


by Simon

Lot of the younger generation people in the western world usually are addicted to processed foods like colas, pizzas & burgers that have massive proportions of carbohydrates which are injurious to their health in the long run resulting in major problems like high blood pressure, cholesterol, hypoglycemia, to name a few.

The hard-core reality is that our ancestors started to have meat about 2 million years ago & later on agriculture came into existence about ten thousand years ago. Meaning that we all humans started to eat meat about few thousand years ago which have considerable amount of carbs. But we do not have enough time to drastically change our diet plans altogether and added to this our body will not have an idea on what to do with excess carbs.

We have to finally cut down our carbs at any cost to achieve our final goal of healthy weight loss but cannot resort to unpopular methods like starving or eating blunt foods as such moves may result in many health issues. Hence we needed to tackle such situations very carefully.

The real mystery about these carbohydrates is that they increase weight rapidly by making you addicted for such stuff on a daily basis. As we all know that carbohydrates are utmost necessary but will have negative effects if we consume them in alarming proportions. They not only make us tempted to consume them daily but will also make us unhealthy in the longer run. We will prone to many health hazards in our middle ages.

In fact these carbohydrates provides the major source of energy for our red blood cells and the brain. They in fact help us to decrease the blood sugar & insulin production. Moreover, they also helps us in utilizing the fat deposited in our body for efficient energy production. Added to that, they also helps us in maintaining better health conditions in our 40s preventing major health problems.

Most of the dieticians are of the view that it is good for us to go for low carb diets like the green leafy vegetables and other low carb vegetarian foods like meat & eggs, spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, etc to name a few. These stuffs not only helps us to maintain weight healthy but will also burn your calories in a phased manner. Some of the low carb diet foods that can as well take are soybeans, strawberry fruits & some dairy products.

Majority of low carb diet foods are indeed nutritious & tasty and can be considered as the solution to our weight loss issues. Lot of diet programs have been followed like Dr. Atkins diet, south beach diet, zone diet etc & almost every programs will have their specifications about the foods that needs to be consumed on a daily basis.

It may not impossible to adopt ourselves to low carb diet but definitely worth pursuing it. It is better to drink lots of water may be up to 8-10 glasses every day if you are in a high protein diet. Apart from that, you can have club soda, herbal tea & lime juice as the beverage for your low carb diet plan.

More & more people are going with low carb diets in order to avoid major health issues like high blood pressure & cholesterol. This will get them best possible results in their middle ages by maintaining their body health in best possible manner. Most of them are also stressing on exercises apart from low carb diet plans to get highly desirable results.

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