The Pros And Cons Of The Atkins Diet

Diets have been around since the dawn of time, people have always been concerned with their figure. The desired figure may have changed but the method to achieving them were always through altering their diet. FAD diets began in the 19th century with Arsenic pills which claimed to speed up the metabolism and let people lose weight without changing their diet. Despite the fact that this pill ended up doing more harm than good. The diet I’ve chosen for my report didn’t come into existence until late in the 20th century; the Atkins Diet. The Atkins diet was created in 1972 by Robert Coleman Atkins. He was an American physiologist and cardiologist in New York. Due to stress from the years of medical practice Robert started to gain weight. Not long after the weight gain he read a study by Dr. Alfred W. Pennington where they advocated for the complete elimination of sugars from the diet advocating for increased consumption of fats and protein. He soon began advertising the plan to his patients with close to 100 successful patients. He went on to the tonight show to demonstrate his plan and from there on out it skyrocketed.
Atkins 20 is the original version of the plan and is now targeted to those who have losing more than 40 pounds as their goal, with their carbohydrate intake being 20g. Atkins 40 is the newer version and is more flexible their demographic being those who have less than 40 pounds to lose, the target carbohydrate intake is 40g. By limiting the intake of carbohydrates the body has to resort to using fats for cellular respiration. The founder of the Atkins diet claims that this diet works better than other FAD diets since other diets lower the amount of total calories, but is still high in