Crimson Dynamo
22-03-2010, 10:04 AM
Doctors have reinvented the world's most famous diet. Now it's healthier, easier and works even better...
Since Dr Atkins launched the original low-carb diet in the Seventies, millions have tried it, lost weight, gained it again, and a fantastically lucrative worldwide low-carbohydrate industry has been born.
It reached its peak in the Nineties with Hollywood stars such as Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Aniston among its high-profile devotees.
But health concerns about the Atkins' focus on fat and meat at the expense of fruit and vegetables meant it was always considered contentious by diet experts, and although many people lost weight, few devotees were ever able to stick with its draconian restrictions for very long.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1259612/Atkins-bites-You-shed-stone-weeks-new-version-worlds-famous-diet.html#ixzz0iu0gcq6F
Since Dr Atkins launched the original low-carb diet in the Seventies, millions have tried it, lost weight, gained it again, and a fantastically lucrative worldwide low-carbohydrate industry has been born.
It reached its peak in the Nineties with Hollywood stars such as Renee Zellweger and Jennifer Aniston among its high-profile devotees.
But health concerns about the Atkins' focus on fat and meat at the expense of fruit and vegetables meant it was always considered contentious by diet experts, and although many people lost weight, few devotees were ever able to stick with its draconian restrictions for very long.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1259612/Atkins-bites-You-shed-stone-weeks-new-version-worlds-famous-diet.html#ixzz0iu0gcq6F