Be they Atkins, South Beach, High Carb, Low Carb, or High Protein, they are all the rage. They do provide one major problem, though! What do you do once you've reached your goals? Have you prepared for what will happen once you DO reach your goal? Chances are, at least on average, you have not...

For folks wanting to low carb but not sure where to start, this quick food guide gives you some ideas of what you'd be eating if you decided to "do Atkins."

Dr. Robert Atkins originally created the Atkins diet in the 1970’s. The popularity of this low-carb diet reached its zenith about ten years ago, but it is believed that today as many as twenty-five million Americans may be on low-carb diets at any given time.

Are you on an Atkins, South Beach or other low carb diet? We've got free recipes, information, background and much more.

Since the day in 1972 that cardiologist Robert Atkins first told dieters to swap carbohydrates for steak, cheese, and bacon, low-carb, high-fat diets have inspired endless controversy. The latest salvo comes from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, who reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine that low-carb diets don

The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts.The Atkins franchise, a business formed to provide products to those individuals on the diet, has been highly successful due to the popularity of the diet, and is considered the iconic and driving entity of the larger "low-carb craze". However, various factors have led to its dwindling success and the company founded by Dr. Atkins in 1989, Atkins Nutritionals of Ronkonkoma, New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July of 2005, two years after the death of Dr. Atkins. The company re-emerged in January 2006, and the Atkins logo is still highly visible through licensed-proprietary branding for food products and related merchandise.