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Atkins 40™: An Easy, Flexible Diet
Searching for a successful weight loss solution that doesn’t take over your life can be tough. Between counting calories and squeezing in exercise, it’s often hard to find the time and discipline to lose weight. Atkins 40 ™ makes it easy with a flexible diet plan that encourages weight loss through living a low carb Read More
How Atkins 40® Works and the Science Behind It
Carbs and fat are your body’s two sources of fuel. A low-fat diet is high in carbs, so when you eat more carbs than your body needs it stores them as fat. Atkins is an effective diet that transforms your metabolism from one that stores fat into one that burns fat. High-carbohydrate diets raise blood Read More
The Atkins Diet: Getting Started, Staying Focused
The Atkins Diet is an organized program for achieving permanent weight control through the intelligent consumption of carbohydrates. And there’s more than weight loss at stake here: what really matters is your overall health and well being. In fact, many people who don’t need to lose weight choose to follow the Atkins because of all Read More
Your Ally, the Atkins Edge
One of the first things that people new to Atkins notice after the first few days is their newfound ability to pass on sweets and starchy snack foods. This is not just a matter of psyching yourself up to the task, but an actual diminishment in appetite that occurs a week or so after you Read More
The Low-Carb Traveler
When you’re on your own turf, it’s always easier to stick to your routine, whether it’s when you get up, when you go to bed, when you exercise and, of course, what, where and when you eat. If you travel for business and/or pleasure, your usual patterns may be disrupted by a time zone changes, Read More
From Fast Food to Fine Cuisine
Sometimes you actually can have your cake and eat it, too. In this case, we’re not literally talking about cake, of course. But you can do Atkins and still eat at your favorite spots—from the local diner to the fancy eatery with white tablecloths and a yard-long menu. You can even eat at most fast-food Read More
How to Maximize Your Chances of Dieting Success
Now that you know that Atkins is an easy and great-tasting way to lose weight, let’s get started! 1. Assemble your Atkins Tool Kit. Here’s all you need: A scale A cloth measuring tape Download the Atkins Carb Counter and Acceptable Foods List, 2 Week Meal Plan and Shopping List. Go to Free Tools to Read More
Daily Life on Atkins
One of the reasons that Atkins remains so popular almost four decades after Dr. Atkins wrote his first book is that it’s easy to eat low-carb foods wherever you are. Eating In? If you love to cook and dine at home most nights, it’s a cinch to convert classic recipes to equally delectable low-carb versions. Read More
New Research Study Supports Low-Carb Over Low-Fat Diet for Weight Loss
It’s no question that the US has been facing an ongoing epidemic—obesity. The Food Research and Action Center reports that more than two-thirds of US adults are obese or overweight (Ogden et al., 2014). This month, Trust for America’s Health Organization disclosed that adult obesity rates have remained high nationwide and no state has experienced Read More
Low-Carb More Effective in Lowering Blood Pressure than Low-Fat and Orlistat
A study recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has demonstrated that a low-carb diet is more effective at lowering blood pressure than the weight–loss drug orlistat in concert with a low-fat diet. William S. Yancy, Jr., an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and the lead author of the study, Read More