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[[Image:Atkins.jpg|thumb|Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins]]

[[Image:Atkins.jpg|thumb|Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins]]

'''The Atkins Diet''' is a controversial theory that overweight persons can best lose weight by reducing their intake of [[carbohydrates]].  While the diet encourages the replacement of carbohydrates with protein, it also allows the replacement of carbohydrates with fat, contrary to most traditional views of good diet.

'''The Atkins Diet''' is a controversial theory that overweight persons can best lose weight by reducing their intake of [[carbohydrates]].  The diet encourages an approach of reducing intake of manufactured carbohydrates and replacing these with healthy and natural carbohydrates in a strict regimen. Consumption of healthy fats and proteins is emphasized as well in order to kick-start and maintain the body in a state closer to what human beings are designed to eat in the first place. The addition of the word "fat" has been seen by many to be the most controversial aspect of the plan and has been the cause of much controversy. Many of it's critics flatly state that any fats violate traditional views of nutritional intake and Dr. Atkins response has been that fats are essential to human health and must be part of the overall intake to the body.

==History==

==History==