The Atkins diet

The diet developed in the seventies by the American cardiologist Robert Atkins propagates a carbohydrate-poor and instead protein-rich diet.
Instead of pasta, rice or bread, meat, eggs and cheese are on the menu. Permissible are proteins and fats, usually in a 60:40 ratio.

Nutrition plan (example)
Morning: American Breakfast (two fried eggs with ham)
Noon: turkey breast with mayo sauce, mozzarella
In the evening: salad with sauce, green peppers, bratwurst

Course of diet

In fact, the diet can begin to grow rapidly, while Atkins' subjects are losing weight faster than other dietary supplements in the first few months.

This has several reasons:

First, the body's carbohydrate store is degraded. This leads to a high water loss and thus to weight loss.
If no carbohydrates are available, the metabolism is switched over, so that existing fat reserves are consumed.
In addition, the Atkins diet is very satisfying: anyone who eats sixty per cent protein will quickly be satisfied. Apart from that, many fatty foods - bratwurst, cream, cheese, etc. - often do not taste so well without carbohydrate supplement. The weight loss is thus less, therefore it also consumes less calories.

After one year, however, there is no difference in weight loss between Atkins and other diets. The Atkins principle provides that the low carbohydrate diet is continued for life.

The majority of nutritionists and physicians are skeptical about "low-carb diets" (low-carbohydrate): the one-sided diet and especially the significantly increased intake of fats represents a risk to health.
Particularly people with cardiac and circulatory diseases, diabetics, pregnant women and the elderly are at risk. The fat can block arteries. Too much protein does not get liver or kidney disease. In general, nausea, headaches, muscle cramps and persistent mouth odor are to be expected. Deficiencies in vitamins are just as likely.
By the way, the German Society for Nutrition generally recommends a balanced diet for the human being, which contains plenty of carbohydrate products and, by the way, much movement.!