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This diet violates several fundamental rules of healthy eating. And, it is not sustainable. Yes, you can "lose weight" on this diet. Temporarily. You can also lose your kidneys or your liver--not really much of a bargain, there. What is the value in losing healthy bone and muscle tissue, along with fat, while simultaneously damaging your vital organs? Does this make any sense to you? If so, contact us about beachfront property in Arizona--have we got a deal for you! 

The Atkins diet essentially eliminates 1 of the 3 macronutrient groups. On this diet, you eat lots of protein and fat--but few carbohydrates (the sources of which are critical to getting key nutrients). Many people are attracted to this diet because they can "lose weight" by eating "forbidden foods." The weight loss is costly and illusory, and the health consequences can be severe.

The diet induces weight loss through several mechanisms:

1. Total calorie reduction through imbalance and satiation. By eliminating an entire food group, you may actually eat less.

2. Reduction of portion size through boredom. People on this diet start eating less, because the diet does not provide a full range of taste sensations. For that reason, also, most people come to their senses and abandon this whacko diet after a few weeks.

3. Loss of lean tissue through malnutrition. Because this diet lacks essential nutrients, the body sheds lean tissue. Unfortunately, while total fat may decline for a while, you will see your body fat ratio increase. That is, more of your body is fat than before you started this diet. That's because you will have lost lean tissue that burns calories at rest.

4. Chemical imbalances that cause the body to burn its stores of carbohydrates and then go into a fat burning mode. Once these carbohydrates are depleted, however, fat-burning becomes very inefficient and the body lowers metabolism in response to the depleted carbohydrate stores. Once you go off this diet, the body is still trying to protect those carbohydrate stores, and you get fatter on the same amount of food you ate before. But, you can't stay on this diet long because doing so is a death sentence.

Burning fat

To burn fat, you need carbohydrates. The Atkins diet reduces these carbohydrates to a level that is below what you need for the metabolism of normal levels of fat, then pumps up the fat in your diet to super high levels. That is rank stupidity, on the face of it. The effects of this stupidity, however, are more than intellectual embarrassment. The effects of the stupidity inherent in the Atkins diet can cost you in ways no amount of money can pay for.

What matters is how many calories you consume, not how many carbs. You can't escape the basic physics, here. It takes 3,500 calories to make a pound of fat--reduce calories, and you reduce fat. Increase calories, and you increase fat.

Stinky stuff

The Atkins diet induces a state of ketosis. People on this diet have an odor that is detectable by folks with very keen senses of smell, by instrumentation designed for that detection, and by cats and dogs.

Because most people cannot detect this odor, they are unaware of it. It is the same odor emitted by diabetics who are in a "red alert" state. And for the same reason. It is the odor of the ketones. In effect, rancid fat circulates in the blood of an Atkins dieter. This rancid fat releases free radicals and does all kinds of other damage inside your body. If you are trying to get cancers of the colon, prostate, bladder, stomach, intestines, and lungs, the Atkins diet is for you. Otherwise, it's not. But, the cancer problem isn't a threat if you stay on the Atkins diet because renal failure or liver failure will kill you first.

The diet is low in fruit, which you need for an effective immune system and proper bowel functioning. It is also low in vegetables, which you need for a host of nutrients.

How anyone could release this diet on the public and not go to prison for fraud is an amazing testament to the lack of justice in our legal system. But, don't let that stop you from rejecting the stupidity and the consequences thereof.

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