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."

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This story explains how easy it is to get at least 25 grams of fiber in your diet each day. From apples to innovative health drinks and concentrated, low carb, high fiber foods, there are numerous good options presented here.

Eating foods that contain fewer amounts of carbohydrates may help inhibit the progression of prostate cancer, according to researchers at Duke Prostate Center.

Numerous studies have proven that athletic performance and bodycomposition are improved when individuals follow the "Zone" eating program designed by Barry Sears, PH.D. Instead of the high carb, low fat, low protein diet that the Canada Food Guide recommends, a diet in which 40% of calories come from carbs, 30% from protein, and 30%...

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.