Cutting calories and losing weight quickly has never really been my thing; regardless, my double chin was becoming quite apparent and it was time to lose some weight. Have you been in a situation where you know you need to make a change in your lifestyle but you didn’t know…

By: Fereshteh Safarzadeh Markhali The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate diet created by Dr. Robert Atkins resulting from his analysis to reduce his own weight. The concept of Atkins is in relation to a high protein / low carbohydrate diet in order to lose a significant amount of weight in a short amount of time. [...]

Calories are simply the measure of heat or energy that you derive from any food, be they carbohydrates, fats, or proteins. The truth about low carb foods is that they have fewer carbohydrate-derived potential energy, but because they may also contain large amounts of fats, they are not necessarily foods for the sluggish as well.
