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.

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The first essential element is the amount of protein in the Atkins diet. Protein, more than carbohydrates, has the power to satiate hunger. If you have already eaten a heavy carbohydrate meal and then felt hungry after, you know that carbohydrates do not have much endurance. Proteins, in combination with a small amount of healthy fats, you can keep

The best weight loss plans are all high in fruit, vegetables and fiber, and low in artery-clogging types of fat. The worst is the high-protein, low-carb Atkins plan."Obese people already have a higher risk of heart disease," explained Dr. Yunsheng Ma. "So it's particularly important that they make heart-healthy diet changes that can be kept up."

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Are you an Atkins fan or perhaps just a bit curious? Can you sustain this type of diet and remain nutritionally healthy? These are just a few questions dieters have been asking about the high protein, low carb lifestyle that Dr. Atkins and others have promoted throughout the years. A study published in November of 2006 can help enlighten some of us