Frantic for French fries? Pining for pasta? Craving croissants? Well, don't feel too bad about forgoing the current low-carb craze, because a new study has shown that carbohydrates can give your brain a boost.

Myth: You’ll be OK with a high protein/low carb dietFact: This type of diet aims to secure most of the daily required amount of calories from protein foods, such as meat, dairy products and eggs, with a very small part taken from foods containing a lot of carbs (bread, pasta, potatoes and fruits).

Look, I get it. You havent eaten an English Muffin since Clinton was president, you only eat frosted mini wheats in your dreams, and you linger on those Barilla pasta commercials to live vicariously through swarthy Italians swirling sauce-laden spaghetti on forks. Youre on Atkins. OK. Youre not on ATKINS. You just eat low carb. Fine. The...

For years, many dieters have believed that a low fat diet — including pasta, breads, and even low-fat cookies — is they key to achieving successful weight loss.Does eating a diet high in fat and high in protein really make sense? Is it too good to be true? Yes, it is too good to be true.”

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.