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Atkins Diet, Its Risks and Benefits
Who had never heard of the Atkins diet? If you are a diet fan, then that will ring a bell to you. Atkins Diet, officially called the Atkins Nutritional Approach, is a low-carbohydrate diet which was started by Dr. Robert Atkins from a research paper he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association published by two famous personalities, Gordon Azar and Walter Lyons Bloom. Mr. Atkins is an overweight himself and he decided to use the study to resolve his own weight problem. Eventually, he popularized the Atkins diet in his book Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution in 1972. He made his revised book, Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution and modified some parts of the diet yet retains the original concepts.
Nowadays, there is the Atkins franchise, a business created to offer products to those people on diet and was highly successful because it became a very popular diet strategy. Also, it is considered the driving force of the low-carb fad.Generally, the Atkins Diet entails restraint of carbohydrates to switch the body’s metabolism from burning glucose as fuel to burn stored body fat. We call this process ketosis.
This process begins when insulin levels are low. Ketosis lipolysis happens when lipid stores in fat cells transferred to the blood and used for energy. On the other hand, caloric carbohydrates like glucose or starch impact the body by increasing blood sugar after eating.
The risks and benefits of the Atkins diet remain a subject of argument. While various studies have shown that the Atkins diet helps prevent cardiovascular disease lowers the low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and increases the amount of HDL cholesterol, other studies have revealed that the diet add to cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, osteoporosis and kidney stones.
In the end, ask your doctor’s approval before trying any diet plan so as not to risk your health.