The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet
The Atkins diet advocates a low - carb, high - protein meal plan as a way to cut calories and lose weight. Rachel F. Heller and Richard F. Heller push their program, The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, as an antidote. They consider your natural enjoyment of and physiological need for carbs an addiction.
The Hellers’ diet gives you two high - protein meals and one high - carb, high - protein combination meal a day. If you absolutely, positively must have another serving of carbs, you must also have another serving of protein food. But won’t that increase your calorie consumption and put on pounds? Any answers out there?
The bottom line is that the Hellers’ regimen works just like the Akins diet, taking weight off via water loss and calorie control. Okay, but as with all low - carb, high - protein (fat - indulgent) diets, the question to ask yourself is, why deny your body an essential nutrient in pursuit of short - term weight loss? Yes, cutting back on carbs is one way to cut back on calories, but the important element is cutting back on calories, not cutting back on carbs.
