Atkins Diet Review

How Big is the Atkins Diet Craze?

If you do Atkins Diet keyword research then you can get the idea of just how popular the latest dieting craze is. I think it is absurd that hundreds of people are searching for "atkins diet pregnancy" each month. Tip: the Atkins Diet may not be that good for your soon to be child.

Atkins Diet & Marketing

I have seen low carb signs at Arby's. Some franchises are going one step further to protect their position by investing so heavily into Atkins friendly diet options that Subway and TGI Friday are listed on the home page of the Atkins website (that probably costs some serious $$$).

Atkins Diet & Marketing Crap

Another website by the name of AtkinsDietSucks.com was created which tries to market diet pills at people. If you go to their page about how the Atkins Diet works they tell you that it is highly effective too. Complete marketing crap.

Often times media in any form exploits any and all angles of a news story for profit. The web makes it easy for a single source to exploit them all...

What is the Atkins Diet?

The Atkins Diet (official site) takes the food pyramid and flips it upside down. Instead of carbohydrate containing food being the foundation of the diet carbohydrates are viewed as the devil Atkins Diet Food Pyramid. The main foods in the Atkins diets are meats and other high fat / high protein foods.

How Does the Atkins Diet Work?

Eating low levels of carbohydrates help reduce the amount of insulin in your body. Often times overweight people have a hard time losing weight by just cutting fat out of their diet since hyperinsulin conditions cause their body to constantly want to convert carbohydrates to fat.

Problems with the Atkins Diet

The American Heart Association, American Dietetic Association, and the American Kidney Fund have all published statements warning about the various dangers associated with low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets. ...Scientific studies show that low-carbohydrate diets raise cholesterol levels in considerable number of individuals, sometimes to a dramatic degree. These diets also typically accelerate calcium losses and have led major health organizations to raise important questions about their possible contribution to heart problems, kidney abnormalities, osteoporosis, and other health problems. Source: Atkins Diet Alert.

Atkins Diet Alert has also created a dieters registry for people on the Atkins Diet.

Other Atkins Diet Crap

In my entry where I talk about the low carb potato and show the image of the low carb potato with a small crap stack underneath it the crap stack's reason is because studies have shown that among other side effects some on the Atkins diet have had:
Diarrhea 23 percent
Constipation 68 percent