Atkins and Diet
The Atkins diet is a nutritional system designed (by the specialist of the same name) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and for weight loss.
The method involves four steps:
- Induction
- Continuation of weight loss
- Pre-maintenance
- Maintenance.
In addition, it allows you to diversify your goals and / or decide whether to lose weight more or less quickly.
Based on the nutritional principles of the Mediterranean diet and traditional Italian academic guidelines, the Atkins diet is not a healthy system. In fact, especially in the first two phases, there is a serious probability that the typical side effects of high-protein and ketogenic diets may arise.
Below we will present an example of the Atkins diet, trying to faithfully respect all the principles that characterize the method.
