Atkins Diet

The Atkins diet is really called the Atkins nutritional approach. It's a low-carb diet created by Robert Atkins. Dr. Atkins had rather radical theories about the nature of weight gain as expressed in the Atkins diet. The Atkins diet shifts the focus. He shifts dieters' metabolism to burn body fats by cutting out carbohydrates from their diets. Lose the fat lose the weight. The diet would work because it burned calories. The Atkins diet supposedly burned an extra 950 calories everyday. The Atkins diet also could help people with type 2 diabetes.. As opposed to type 1 diabetes, type 2 is often closely associated with diet and people who weigh too much. So in general any diet that helps decrease weight will help address type 2 diabetes. But the Atkins diet is also low in carbohydrates, which must be avoided with type 2 diabetes regardless of caloric intake, so by means of this aspect of the diet Atkins claimed those who suffer type 2 diabetes would no longer need medication such as insulin. But that's counter to the prevailing medical theories regarding type 2 diabetes which, although recommending that lowered intake of carbohydrates and weight loss help manage diabetes, ascribe no causal relationship between carbohydrates and type 2 diabetes.
What steps does one take to follow the Atkins diet? Induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance and lifetime maintenance are the four necessary phases of the diet. Dr. Atkins himself died of complications of increased fat intake in his diet, which is something to keep in mind when choosing this diet.