The Importance of Exercise While on a Low Carb Diet.
The Atkins Diet, which received widespread public interest in 1972, did not fail to encourage the introduction of regular exercise. The dieter who has agreed to abstain from carbohydrates must appreciate the extent to which new chemicals can build up in a system that looks to protein as an energy source. Those chemicals form in [...]
Atkins and Ketosis
Atkins and Ketosis The basic principle of the Atkins diet is that a state of ketosis will help you burn your fat stores as energy. Many people, even those who are on low carbohydrate diets, don?t quite understand ketosis and why it works. Most diets are calorie-reduction diets. They help you lose weight, but some [...]
Carbohydrate Cravings and the Atkins diet
Carbohydrate Cravings and the Atkins diet Carbohydrate cravings are difficult to deal with, especially when you are trying to maintain a low carbohydrate way of life. However, carbohydrate cravings are not just a matter of will power. As Dr. Atkins points out in his book, carbohydrates produce a flood of insulin and a rise in [...]
Carbohydrate Substitutes for the Atkins diet
Carbohydrate Substitutes for the Atkins diet Cutting down on carbohydrates with the Atkins diet is easy when you see the wide variety of proteins and vegetables that are on the acceptable foods list. However, it does take some time and adjustment to get used to this new way of eating. A lot of the American [...]
Is Atkins right for you
Is Atkins right for you The Atkins diet is very popular, but is it right for you? Before you start down the low carb road, you should take some time to decide whether low carb is the right way for you to lose weight. Just because it has been effective for others doesn?t mean it [...]
