Celebrity diet:
“The Atkins Diet”

Atkins diet to lose 8 lbs in one week without eating carbs.

The Atkins Diet is the most famous diet used by Hollywood's Celebrities. The diet was created in 1970 by the American cardiologist Robert C. Atkins. The Atkins diet has a great popular success and nowadays is still fashion!

The Atkins diet is characterized by eating all the food you want as proteins and fat (meat, fish, egg), but without carbohydrates (rice, pasta).

Diet duration: 1 month.
Weight loss: 4 to 8 lbs the first week. After, between 2 and 4 lbs per week
Composition of the diet: 90% proteins and fat. 10% carbohydrates.

Benefits of the Atkins diet:

The Atkins Diet is an easy diet to follow because it allows you to eat food usually forbidden in other diets (proteins and fat for example), and ban other food that is normally considered as "boring" as for instance vegetables.

It's a diet without hunger sensation, without too many frustrations. The rules of the Atkins diet are relatively easy to follow: it's not necessary to count calories, don't eat carbohydrates.

Diet plan of the Atkins Diet to lose 8 lbs in 1 week:

Breakfast
• scrambled eggs with ham or bacon,
• coffee or tea without sugar.

Lunch (choose one option)
• steak with salad,
• pork roasted with vegetables,
• hake with spinach,
• fillet of veal with cheese and roasted tomatoes.

Dinner (choose one option)
• cocktail of prawns with 1 toast,
• chicken roasted with salad,
• chops of lamb with salad.

Drinks
• mineral water
• tomato juice or fruit
• red wine.

Characteristics of the Atkins diet

The Atkins diet defines clearly the groups of food that can be eaten:

Allowed food in the Atkins diet:
You can eat food rich in proteins and fat without limitation:
- meat,
- sausage,
- fish,
- seafood,
- eggs,
- lacteal products (butter, milk, cheese - except light cheese because itcontains carbohydrates).
- mayonnaise,
- butter,
- oil.

Restricted Food in the Atkins diet:
For lunch, you can eat 10% of carbohydrates from green vegetables (150 oz, 50 grs).

The rest of food rich in carbohydrates is suppressed:
- pasta,
- rice,
- potatoes,
- bread,
- fruits,
- vegetables (beans, peas, lentils),
- sugar,
- drinks with sugar (Coke...) and drinks with alcohol.

Weak points of the Atkins Diet

The Atkins diet has been very criticized by doctors due to the following fact:

1. Saturated fat and proteins with high cholesterol are bad for health (cancer, uric acid, cholesterol in arteries).

2. Due to eating very few carbohydrates, the body search for energy in the fat, but also in the muscles, provoking a muscular wear and fatigues.

3. The absence of fruits and the limited contribution of vegetables can provoke a dangerous lack of vitamins and minerals.

4. The lack of fiber causes problems of constipation.

Conclusions on the Atkins Diet

The Atkins diet must be followed not more than 30 days. You must take care with this diet, because it contains so low carbohydrates that badly breath can be provoked.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the own Dr. Atkins had a health history of heart attack, cardiac insufficiency and hypertension, and was obese when he died at 72 years old, due to a injury in the head because he slipped. The defenders of the diet indicated that the Dr. Atkins health problems didn't have connection with the diet that he had followed.

Before starting a diet, please consult your nutritionist, she help you lose weight in good health.