Atkins Low Carb Diet
The Atkins Diet has been around since the 1960's but boomed in popularity during the late 1990's and early 2000. Many diets which come and go are considered nothing more than fad diets, generally created to help so-called diet companies line their pockets by selling their products. The Atkins Diet isn't so much a fad diet, but a diet which has being scientifically researched and proven to work.
The proof is in the pudding – the Atkins Diet was invented by Dr. Robert C Atkins in the 1960's and is a diet he followed himself throughout his life until he died at the ripe old age of 73 of cardiac arrest (unrelated to the diet). Dr. Robert C Atkins began his research into the benefits of a low carb diet by utilising previous research on the subject. Dr. Robert C Atkins was himself proof that the diet was highly effective given that at the time he himself began following his own diet plan he was obese and eventually regained his health in a relatively short space of time.
The Atkins low carb diet works by altering the body's metabolism to consume its own fat cells for energy by giving it no other option. What do we mean by this? Well, the body's main source of energy comes from carbohydrates, and the Atkins low carb diet works by starving the body of carbohydrates for a sufficient enough time that the body recognises it must do something – and begins to burn fat cells for energy instead.
Eating high amounts of protein and saturated fats is also a part of the Atkins low carb diet, which helps retain the body's muscle mass whilst the metabolism feeds off the body's fat.
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