The Adkins Diet
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What is the Adkins diet (also knows as Atkins diet)?
The Atkins diet was discovered by Dr. Robert Atkins, in the 1960’s from a diet which he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Using this diet, he was able to control his own overweight conditions and also successfully treated over ten thousand patients. He popularized his diet through a series of books, beginning with the ‘Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution’ in 1972. In the book ‘Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution’, he introduced some new ideas, but still maintained the original concepts he promoted as part of the diet plan.
The Atkins diet is one of the most popular low carbohydrate diets. It is based on the theory that by drastically reducing carbohydrate intake and eating more of protein and fat, the body will start to naturally loose weight, by burning fat stores in the body more efficiently.
According to the Dr.Atkins when your daily carbohydrate intake is less than 40 grams, your body enters a state celled Ketosis. In this state, your body starts to burn fat as fuel. Insulin production is reduced and this prevents any more fat formation in the body. You also stop craving for food rich in carbohydrates.
If you plan to get into this diet, you will find that it consists of four phases. These are induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance and maintenance.
In the induction phase, you will limit intake of carbohydrates up to 20 grams. You can only have vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli and tomatoes and need to avoid foods such as yogurt, fruit and starchy vegetables like potatoes. Other things you need to avoid are alcohol and caffeine.
During the ongoing weigh loss phase, you will be increasing your carbohydrate intake by 5 grams. After this comes the pre-maintenance phase, where you will start including some carbohydrate foods, to see if they can be taken without resulting in any weight gain. After you achieve you intended weight loss, you get into the maintenance phase. Now, you can introduce some more carbohydrate foods in your diet, but not those that cause you to gain weight.
Through all the phases of the diet, the amount of carbohydrate intake is gradually increased so that gradual weight loss is maintained. It’s important to follow the exercises that need to be done as part of the diet regimen to gains full benefits from it.
Referred Links:
http://weightloss.about.com/cs/atkinslowcarb/
http://www.webmd.com/content/pages/7/3220_136.htm
