Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption primarily for weight control. Foods high in digestible carbohydrates are limited or replaced with foods containing a higher percentage of proteins and fats.

The high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet has already been shown to be valuable in controlling seizures in children, and now results from a small study suggest that the diet also works for adults.

A modified version of a popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet can significantly cut the number of seizures in adults with epilepsy, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The Atkins-like diet, which has shown promise for seizure control in children, may offer a new lifeline for patients when drugs and other treatments fail...

A key to weight loss, is to keep blood sugar under control.Your blood sugar, when you are eating a lot of sugars and carbohydrates is constantlygoing up and down, much like a roller coaster.

If you are capable of a normal degree of self-control, you can launch yourself on the low carbohydrate diet with every assurance that pounds will start leaving you almost at once-often by the end of the second day.

Over the past several decades there has been an alarmingly increased intake of “insulin-inducing” carbohydrates in the average adult’s diet. This trend was strongly correlated with a dramatic increase in excess weight and obesity, as well as diabetes.