If you’ve been following Dr. Gourmet for a while, you already know what I think about the Atkins Diet and other low-carbohydrate diets: why follow a diet – any diet – that takes entire food groups away from you? Certainly we know that such diets work to help people lose weight, which is largely due to the fact that when most people stop eating carbohydrates, they stop eating junk. Unfortunately, the Atkins diet is not a diet that can be sustained for the long term, and the Atkins diet does not prepare people for eating real food: when they go off the diet they usually gain the weight back, and then some.
There’s been some concern about the long term health risks of such diets. We’ve seen that those eating higher protein diets that were also high in saturated fat were more likely to develop heart diseasethan those whose higher protein diet came from vegetable protein sources. Such extremely-low-carbohydrate diets also seem to affect your thinking abilities. Low-Carb Diets and Type 2 Diabetes
