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Low carbsÂ….High risk?

How is it that we can make sense of the Atkins diet? Have we really looked deeper into how high protein, low carb diets actually work. What are the benefits as well as the disadvantages? I believe this topic is extremely important due to the millions of Americans that rely on these diets for weight loss and or a healthier lifestyle. In researching this hot topic I have found many of the negative affects that we do not learn about and I will exploit them as well as educate the reader on why I believe the Atkins diet along with all of its copycats are putting people at high risk.
The first topic I would like to touch upon is; "diet misconception." I think it is would be fair enough to assume that when most people think of dieting they think of weight loss. This is not necessarily true. Changing you diet could simply mean that you are eating a different variety foods than you usually do. It does not always mean that you are changing your amount of......

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