Do You Need An Atkins Diet Food List?

January 25th, 2008 by admin

The Atkins diet severely restricts carbohydrates, and is very different in emphasis to what we are used to eating. Instead of having bread, cereal, rice and pasta at the bottom of the pyramid - in the position where you would eat most of that type of food, the Atkins diet has protein such as poultry, beef, pork, fish, chicken and soy as the main food group.

It is for this reason that an Atkins diet food list becomes very handy, especially during the initial stages of the diet, when the restrictions are most severe.

Interestingly, the Atkins diet doesn’t restrict the number of calories you eat. Instead, the restriction is on the type of food you can eat. For example, you cannot eat white rice, or food made with white four. Given that these foods don’t have a lot of nutritional value, this is not such a bad thing. However, this type of restriction can hit some people hard, as they are very popular types of food and often make up a large percentage of the diet of some.

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