Comparing the Operations of the Atkins and South Beach Diets
In today’s society, an ongoing trend of diets have played a major impact in the nutritional and dieting markets such as the Atkins and South Beach. Both diets may be considered similar since they were both designed and intended for dieters to produce similar results of dramatic rapid weight loss within stages. Though the end result may be similar, the method of achieving the weight loss differs in many aspects. Both the Atkins and South Beach diets, varies in the choice of foods consumed by the dieter and the step by step process on how the diet operates.
In the Atkins diet, it involves eating foods which are high in protein and fat, while limiting the amount of foods which are high in carbohydrates or foods which normally tends to raise blood sugar. The Atkins diet aims to eliminate the simple carbohydrate consumption such as rice, alcohol, white flour, and sugar since they are found to contain low amounts of fiber, therefore causing the dieter to consume large sums of calories and a desire to eat more carbohydrates. As a result, the Atkins encourages dieters to consume high-fat, high-animal protein foods such as bacon, sausage, butter, steaks, eggs, and cheese. With the replacement of carbohydrates for high-fat and high-protein foods, weight loss can be achieved since the Atkins diet works on the principle of ketosis: a process by which excess body fat is burned as fuel, resulting in a rapid weight reduction. Like the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet works by lowering carbohydrates. Both diets try to restrict carbohydrates that are rich in sugar since it will cause a rise in insulin levels and will lead to more hunger and inevitably to ...
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Although both diets may produce similar results of dramatic weight loss within the two week initiation phase that radically restricts carbohydrates, the initiation phase of the South Beach differs from the Atkins diet in two significant ways: under South Beach, “good” carbohydrates are not discouraged, and “bad” fat are. However, with Atkins, dieters are encouraged to cut out all carbohydrates: good, bad, or indifferent. Dieters are also permitted in the Atkins diet to eat unlimited amounts of proteins and saturated fat. The key difference between these two diets is that the South Beach diet does not require the exclusion of carbohydrates, but only a change in the type of carbohydrates consumed.
References:
(1) www.atkins.com
(2) www.southbeachdiet.com
(3) http://www.south-beach-diet-information.com/compare.htm
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