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.

The Sonoma diet has 3 phases (which it calls "waves") --- and these are sort of similar to the various phases of the Atkins and South Beach phases. In fact, phase 1 of the Sonoma Diet is called the "Induction" phase, and it seems to serve the same general purpose as phase 1 of the Atkins and South Beach programs too (which is to eliminate cer

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Finding an effective weight loss program isn't hard.It's sticking to one for a long enough time that is hard. The trick is to find a diet which You can master instead of a diet which rules YOUR life. This article describes a few of the popular weight loss programs out there like South Beach and Atkins and describes the author's experience.

Your friend tells you that they had great success on the Atkins diet so you say hey, maybe I should try it. Another friend boasts about the South Beach and then you think which diet should I consider? Is one better than the other, there are so many programs out there I can’t decide. Well I have the solution...

What began as a diet regimen called Weigh Down gradually spawned a religious sect called the Remnant Fellowship preaching that the obese are asking for eternal damnation.