Atkinsons diet

The Atkins diet is a diet plan that differs from the other diets items in terms of food consumption. The diet recommends a high fat and cholesterol diet which most of the other diet plans urge you to avoid. I am not sure as to whether this diet plan actually works or not. The diet also stresses the importance of low carbohydrates and sugar. Atkins claims that the body is forced to burn more fat and energy if there is a deficiency in carbohydrates. The jury is still out on whether this system is of any actual use. Unless you try it and see you will never know.

The main contraversies that were raised by scientific communities were-
* The American Heart Association says that high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets put people at risk of heart disease. A long term study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2006 found that while women on low-carb diets were generally healthier than those on high-carbohydrate diets, women eating more protein and fat from vegetable sources, rather than from animal sources, had a lower risk of heart disease.
* A 2001 scientific review conducted by Freedman et al. and published in the peer reviewed scientific journal Obesity Research concluded that low-carb dieters' initial advantage in weight loss was a result of increased water loss, and that after the initial period, low-carbohydrate diets produce similar fat loss to other diets with similar caloric intake.
* The May 2004 Annals of Internal Medicine study showed that "minor adverse effects" of diarrhea, general weakness, rashes and muscle cramps "were more frequent in the low-carbohydrate diet group".
* Concerns have been raised regarding consumption of high levels of protein in individuals with medical conditions such as kidney disease or gout .