Monday, October 27, 2008

Low Carb Diets Exposed

By Ron Cripps

I'm assuming that you have dieted at least once in the past few years, there's a good bet that the diet you selected was one of the various low carb diets that are about of late. Although the very first of these low carb diets, the Atkins diet program has been active for at least thirty years, the fad for low carb diets has only taken off very recently.

I'm guessing that you've dieted at least once any time in the past few years, there's a good bet that the diet you went on was one of the various low carb diets that are about of late. Although the very first of these low carb diets, the Atkins low carb diet has been everywhere for at least 30 years, the movement for low carb diets has only taken off very recently.

What you need to ask is if you're thinking of taking a crack at one of these low carb diets as if the Atkins diet is so trendy at the present, and really gives support to help you in minimising your weight, why didn't it increase in popularity long before this?

After all it has been around for as long as thirty years. That's a extended time for a diet to be around without everyone noticing it until the later stages of those 30 years. And if these low carb diets are as good for you as all these books and practitioners of the diets will tell you, then why is there so much disapproval to these diets from nutritional and medical opinions?

These are questions that only you can reply to if you want to find out the truth, but if all you want to do is lose a little weight then these low carb diets are ideal for you. The only thing you won't truly know for real is what kind of long term effects these low carb diets will have on your system. Sure you'll reduce the weight and lose the fat off your frame, but at what cost?

And the Atkins low carb diet isn't the only low carb diet that you will uncover. There's the ever accepted Zone diet, the South Beach Diet, the Hollywood diet, the Stillman diet, and a multitude of other low carb diets. These diets are all similar in that they encourage a high fat, high protein, and low carb intake. Each diet has its own differences and traits and which one you try is dependent on what you've heard, or read, about these low carb diets.

For the persistent fanatical dieter these low carb diets may be just what they need, since regardless of any drawbacks that it might have they do work, and they do help you to lose weight. If you're going on a diet, and it doesn't matter overly much which diet it is, you should always be sensible and diet sensibly too.

Losing a few calories swiftly won't help you in the long term. If you keep to the direction of these low carb diets though, your dieting troubles shouldn't be all that many and you might even find that you've left them all behind. - 15343

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