“The Atkins Diet or the Adkins Diet, as some people mistakenly refer to it, is the most successful weight loss, and weight maintenance program of the last quarter of the twentieth century.”

That statement by the late Dr. Robert Atkins was often ridiculed by the medical community and mainstream society. In 2003, the attitudes toward the Atkins Diet Weight Loss Program started to change and the research started to support Dr. Atkins claims

1.The Atkins Diet takes advantage of your body fat and burns it for energy. Because of this reason you can actually eat more than on other diets.

2.The Atkins Nutritional Approach allows you to eat liberally and not become hungry.

3.The Atkins approach is a “way of life” which allows easy maintenance of your weight loss. Most diets, once you lose the weight you are unprepared to maintain the weight loss. You eventually return to your old habits and the weight returns and then some. With Atkins, you seamlessly move from one phase to the other and you do not cut back on the foods.
You just have to eliminate the simple sugars and refined carbohydrates. Fortunately, Atkins and others have developed alternatives for the sweet tooth purveyor.

4.The Atkins Diet will give you more energy, make you feel fulfilled and give you the confidence to continue this “way of life”. You will be amazed how easy it is to continue with this diet and lose weight.

5. Atkins is healthy. New research is beginning to validate what Dr. Atkins already knew. That the Atkins Diet is safe and more effective than other calorie reduced, low-fat diets.

6.Atkins works because it corrects the basic factor that controls obesity and influences risk factors for certain illnesses. That basic factor is insulin. When insulin is found in very high levels, it can cause diabetes, atherosclerosis, and hypertension.

Tips
One of the keys to the Atkins Diet is to eliminate the sugar from your diet. Sugar is public enemy number one and is a bad carbohydrate. Sugar has no nutritional value and is considered a metabolic poison by the late Dr. Atkins. Eliminate it from your diet and your health will improve. Fortunately, there is a sugar substitute called Splenda.