Dr. Atkins’ low-carb diet is the latest diet fad, thanks to Jennifer Aniston. The furor it is causing in medical circles isn’t due to star power or weight loss so much as the immense benefits it brings for diabetics.

For diabetics, low carb diets are being recommended over the more traditional low-calorie low-fat diet that used to be the norm. That older model has now been proven to be damaging, actually, to diabetics’ health.

For diabetics, both sugar and starch are problematic. These cannot be properly absorbed and processed by the body, and the blood sugar can rise to dangerous levels. As a result, too many carbohydrates — which break down into sugars during digestion - are really dangerous.

Anyone on a low-carb diet will generally keep their carbohydrates to 5 to 10% of the total caloric intake per day. The energy and full feeling normally provided via carbs is provided instead via protein and fats.

When someone feels that they are super hungry, and the body gives off desperate hunger signals, they are more likely to binge on sugary food. If you feel full, as can be achieved via fiber or protein, you generally don’t binge.

Unlike most diets, low carb diets let you eat whatever you want if it is a low carb food. You can eat whatever you like and in whatever amount you want, though you should still avoid stuffing yourself of course.

There are foods that are allowed and others that aren’t. Allowed foods include: meat, fish, poultry, cheese, eggs. Many vegetables, though not all, are also permitted. You can eat beans, carrots, avocados. You need to take it a fair amount of fat, and to eat a good deal of protein. Anyone who is obese and wants to follow a low carb diet needs to talk with their doctor first.

For diabetics, a low carb diet can be just the thing to make it easier to stay healthy. And for everyone else, low carb diets will likely continue to be a popular method for weight control.

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