Atkins or Fadkins Diet BY: MYRA LESLIE S. VILORIAHONEY CLAIRE MONARES

INTRODUCTION What is a Fad Diet?A fad diet is a diet, weight loss plan or aid that make dieters believe that they will achieve dramatic results over a short period of time. These diets are usually based on popularity and word of mouth rather than scientific information. Because of this, fad diets are restrictive and hard to maintain, therefore not allowing dieters to stick to the diets for long periods of times. This leads to temporary weight-loss and the inability to achieve long term results.

INTRODUCTION How does it deviate from healthy eating?

Fad diets are eating programs that generally deviate from healthy eating due to them being unbalanced, unhealthy and not nutritionally sound. For example, diet pills rely on speeding up heart rates in order to burn fat quicker. The cabbage soup diet relies on you eating primarily one type of food, which will cause nutritional deficiencies. The grapefruit diet will damage your metabolism and the three day diet restricts the number of vitamins and minerals consumed. From these examples we can see that fad diets can actually be dangerous to your health.

Explanation of the Atkins Diet?Atkins Nutritional Approach:

The Atkins diet is essentially a low-carbohydrate diet. It aims to switch the body's metabolism from metabolising glucose as energy over to converting stored body fat to energy. Dr Atkins believed that the low-carbohydrate diet produces a metabolic advantage because "burning fat takes more calories so you expend more calories." The diet consists of four stages: induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance and lifetime maintenance. In the Induction stage you are limited to 20 net grams of carbohydrates per day, this will increase in the ongoing weight stage as you are able to increase the limit by 5 grams each week. In the pre-maintenance stage you are able to increase carbohydrates intake by 10 grams a week and in the lifetime maintenance stage you is intended to carry on the habits acquired in the previous phases.

How does it suggest that you will lose weight?How your body handles fat can be influenced by eating the right foods and increasing up body's metabolism. When you eat fewer carb foods (especially vegetables high in fibre) your body switches to burning fat (including your own body fat) instead of carbs as its primary fuel source. By changing the balance of carbs, fats and protein in your diet, you boost your energy level and keep it on an even keel. Fat calories are always pushed to the back of the linewhere more than likely theyre stored. Thats why insulin is called the fat hormone. As long as your body keeps turning glucose into fat, youre doomed to being heavy. Fortunately, it doesnt have to be that way. Thats why cutting your carb intake and eating mostly whole food carbohydrates is the core premise of the Atkins Diet.

Why would a Client choose to undertake the Atkins Diet?

The main answer to this question is to loose weight however others might enjoy this type of food Better.

Is the Atkins Diet safe? NO

When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years, this is the most dangerous to the public if followed for any length of time."

When the chief health officer for the State of Maryland,was asked "What's wrong with the Atkins Diet?" He replied "What's wrong with... taking an overdose of sleeping pills? You are placing your body in jeopardy." He continued "Although you can lose weight on these nutritionally unsound diets, you do so at the risk of your health and even your life."

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INTRODUCTION What are some nutritional concerns and or diseases that can be associated with this diet?

The downfall of the Atkins Diet is also its one saving grace--people may not be able to tolerate the diet for long enough to suffer the long-term consequences.

The American Heart Association states: "Individuals who follow these diets are therefore at risk for compromised vitamin and mineral intake, as well as potential cardiac, renal [kidney], bone, and liver abnormalities overall." Low carb diets like the Atkins diet may also hasten the onset of type II diabetes. In short, concluded the September 2004 review in The Lancet,"low-carbohydrate diets cannot be recommended.

The Atkins Diet Pyramid

b)The five food groups

The Healthy Food Pyramid.How does it differ from the Healthy Food Pyramid?

9INTRODUCTION What implications can this diet have on Body Image?

You probably might become fatter.

Become a Fatty.

Be called Fatty boom boom !

Same as other diets.

Macronutrients Proteins - Nitrogen-containing organic compounds composed of bonded amino acid molecules. In the human body, proteins are used as structural materials, energy sources, and chemical messengers (ex: hormones). Major dietary sources of protein include meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and more.

Carbohydrates - Organic compound consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio. Carbs provide much of the energy that cells require. They supply materials to build certain cell structures and store reserve energy supplies. Carbs include sugars and polysaccharides. It is found in grains, starchy vegetables and beans, fruit, beverages, sweets and added sugars.Fats - An organic molecule that includes glycerol and fatty acids. Fats are the most common lipid. They are primarily used to supply energy for cellular activities. Fat molecules can supply more energy per gram than carbohydrate molecules. Butter, cream, pizza, and soda, all contain fat.Glucose travels in your bloodstream to fuel the mitochondria that is responsible for your brain power. Glucose is the only fuel normally used by brain cells. Neurons cannot store glucose so they depend on the bloodstream to deliver a constant supply of it. The main source of glucose is from carbs. Jaime is right - your brain needs carbs.