The Pros And Cons Of The Atkins Diet Menu
Author: Michael Webb

Supporters of the Atkins Diet Menu believe that one of its benefits is that you aren't stuck on a specific set menu. While the Atkins diet does offer a certain degree of structure, you can feel free to make substitutions whenever it fits into the confines of the diet. In following through with the menu, you can drink as much decaffeinated coffee, tea, soda water or Splenda sweetened soft drinks as you wish. In fact, they recommend that you drink at least 64 ounces of fluids per day. If you drink beverages, you need to count the carbohydrates in your drinks.

The Atkins Diet Menu is very big on protein. Eggs in many forms and bacon can make up a typical breakfast. Sausage patties, omelets and sausage links or ham patties are acceptable breakfasts. Atkins also makes specialized muffins and special hot cereal that are considered acceptable for a breakfast on the Atkins diet menu.

The Atkins Diet Menu supports three larger meals per day. Lunches can include chicken salad with mayonnaise, boiled eggs, hard cheese, pork rinds with tuna salad as a dressing, rolled meats and salad greens. Detractors of the Atkins diet menu feel that the excesses of fat, such as is found in "unlimited" pork rinds is completely dangerous and unhealthy to consume. While salad greens are acceptable, the amount of dressing allowed is excessive and doesn't pay attention to the amount of fat in the salad dressing.

Dinners on the Atkins Diet Menu are also filled with fat and protein. Fried fish is allowed, butter, steak grilled in garlic butter, meat sauce with spaghetti squash, creamy almond chicken and fried pork chops. Vegetables are allowed with butter. In fact, any meat is allowed in this diet plan and is, in fact, promoted.

Those who are against the Atkins Diet Menu believe that it is a heart attack diet waiting to happen. It contains everything doctors tell you are bad for you-things that increase your cholesterol and promote heart disease. It is not likely to promote diabetes-one of the highest risk factors for heart disease-but the amount of fat and cholesterol in the diet is much above what most doctors recommend.

Still, there are those that have lost weight on the Atkins Diet Menu when followed carefully. Its success has continued for decades and there are people who firmly believe that this diet has helped them stay healthy. There are those that believe this is the diet that our distant ancestors ate and one that we are destined physiologically to follow.

The Atkins diet menu is perfect for those that prefer meats over carbohydrates. An individual that just can't stay away from meats and eggs would do well to follow this kind of diet over one that supports the use of a lot of carbohydrates. Other people seem to prefer carbohydrates do not do well with this kind of diet and need to be on another type of diet plan that restricts proteins and fats.

 

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