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.

I decided to start taking pictures of the low-carb foods I order so you can visualize exactly what I'm getting when I go out. These were taken at various times over the past few months and are a good representation of the kind of things you can order when you visit your favorite casual dining restaurant.

An all natural sugar substitute that is actually good for you! Sunnydew stevia sweetener is the best way to sweeten health drinks and foods for a low carb diet. It is from the stevia plant, a food grade herb, not a medicinal herb, that is known to help people maintain normal blood sugar levels. Sunnydew is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar.

This story explains how easy it is to get at least 25 grams of fiber in your diet each day. From apples to innovative health drinks and concentrated, low carb, high fiber foods, there are numerous good options presented here.

A restricted diet of low carb food can help relieve the painful and embarrassing symptoms of inflammatory and irritable bowel problems ,a trial has found. Good news for IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) sufferers.

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