The New New Atkins Diet

The Atkins Diet is legendary. It is one of the few diets that caused a kind of mass hysteria. Food manufacturers lined up to bring new lines of low-carb food, and everyone was talking about Atkins.

Dr Robert Atkins passed away in 2003, and since then the super-fad of Atkins has slowly ebbed away. This hasn’t stopped numerous versions of the Atkins diet appearing on the shelves.

Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution was published in 2002. The All-New Atkins Advantage appeared in late 2007. In between these dates a myriad of variations on the low-carb theme have appeared.

Finally, we have The New Atkins for A New You by Dr Eric Westman.

While it seems odd to keep calling the same diet “new” — it demonstrates that nutrition is a field that is constantly changing as new research comes to hand. The latest Atkins revision includes information from over 50 references that make up the body of research undertaken in the field of low-carbohydrate diets.

Low carb diets will always have their place, and there is ample evidence to show that a restricted carbohydrate approach leads to weight loss. However, it seems that (like many restrictive diets) the fall-off rate is high. It’s hard to stick to, and long-term results are varied.

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