Why Atkins Diet  helps treat and prevent Heart Diseases / Atherosclerosis:

Atkins diet is suggested to help decrease the risk of heart diseases because it can reduce the risk associated factors. As such, the diet helps reduce weight, and improve cholesterol and triglycerides, and blood sugar profiles.

The Atkins diet is a low carbs diet that includes sources of meat, fish, dairy, and some nuts among others foods that are low in carbohydrates and high in healthy fats. Research has shown that a high ...

How Atkins Diet works for Heart Disease / Atherosclerosis:

The Atkins diet works to reduce the risks of heart disease and even prevent them, by lowering carbohydrates consumption and incorporating a variety of healthy fats and meat in the diet. 

This is done mainly by influencing the various risk factors associated with heart diseases. 

Hereafter, we cover in details how the Atkins diet works to achieve this:

- Lower bad cholesterol: small particles of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) pose a higher risk of ...

Atkins Diet foods for Heart Disease / Atherosclerosis:

The Atkins diet restricts carbohydrate and stresses on protein and fat intake. Supporters of this diet recommend it as an everlasting regimen that should be followed as a lifestyle across the individual’s lifespan for healthier outcomes.
The Atkins diet promotes foods that are considered low in carbohydrates or carbohydrate-free for consumption. These foods include:

-    Fish and seafood

-    Pork, turkey, and chicken

-    Eggs

-    Non-starchy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, lettuce ...

Atkins Diet for Heart Disease / Atherosclerosis: what you should avoid

The Atkins diet restricts carbohydrates consumption and tends to eliminate many foods based on their carbohydrate content. Accordingly, the diet removes the following foods from the regimen:

- All types of grains, legumes, and starches

- Sugar and alternative sweeteners

- Sugar sweetened beverages and drinks

- Most fruits and vegetables that are high in carbohydrates

- Starchy vegetables such as potatoes and corn

- Vegetables oils like corn oil, canola oil, soybean oil …

- Condiments ...

Atkins Diet for Heart Disease / Atherosclerosis: precautions

There are several side effects that might come along when you follow a low carbohydrate diet such as the Atkins diet. When there is an elimination or even restriction of carbohydrates from the diet, symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, headaches, sleep disturbances, trouble breathing, irritability and mood swings, and bad breath might occur. 

Digestive problems also happen with the Atkins diet due to several reasons such as constipation and diarrhea. Even nausea ...

Atkins Diet for Heart Disease / Atherosclerosis: side effects

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