The Atkins diet

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What is the Atkins diet

The Atkins diet, officially called the Atkins Nutritional Approach, is a low-carbohydrate diet created by Dr Robert Atkins. He used the study to resolve his own overweight condition. He later popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, he modified or changed parts of the diet but remained faithful to the original concepts.

Atkins franchise, a business formed to provide products to those individuals on the diet, was highly successful because of the popularity of the diet, and is considered the driving entity of the larger "low-carb craze".

The Atkins philosophy
When you eat too many carbohydrates (carbs), your body burns some of those carbs for energy and stores the excess carbs as fat. When you eat fewer carbs - especially white flour and sugar, your body begins burning fat as its primary fuel source.

That's how Atkins works - you learn to eat the right foods and change your body from a carb-burning to a fat-burning machine.

The Atkins Nutritional Approach (ANA) has four phases:

Phase 1, Induction, is a brief, jumpstart phase that supercharges your body's fat burning power.
Phase 2, Ongoing Weight Loss is the second phase of the Atkins Nutritional Approach. This phase gives you the knowledge and freedom to begin to add variety into your diet as you control your Net Carb intake and continue to lose weight.
Phase 3, Pre-Maintenance is the third phase of the Atkins Nutritional Approach.
Phase 4, Lifetime Maintenance is the fourth and final phase of the Atkins Nutritional Approach. This is where you make a commitment to being at your goal weight from now on.

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