| A low-carb diet is indeed, very unsafe! These diets | | | | lot of the good nutrition meaning fiber, and naturally |
| like Adkins for example, do not make you feel well. | | | | occurring good vitamins, are not part of your diet. |
| Low-carb diets are meant as a quick fix, and do not | | | | This sets the stage for poor cardiac health. Plant |
| promote any long term weight loss. When you go on | | | | foods such as sweet potatoes, oats, grapes, |
| a low-carb diet plan, there is a severe reduction in | | | | bananas, carrots, etc., help your good (LDL) |
| calories, leaving out many good foods which are very | | | | cholesterol. |
| nourishing to the body. Many people experience | | | | Low carbohydrate diets can cause a person to have |
| unwanted food cravings, and have a very narrow | | | | gout. This is due to the promotion of uric acid since |
| selection of what they can and cannot eat. | | | | these fatty foods on the low carbohydrate diet |
| Many low-carb diets like Adkins, cause ketones. | | | | program have purines. What are purines? Purines are |
| Ketones are not healthy for the body for any length | | | | are substances that promote the formation of too |
| of time. A ketonic state is very hard on the kidneys, | | | | much uric acid in the system. Gout is often caused |
| and can easily cause them to eventually shut down | | | | by uric acid in the blood which is too high, so this is |
| completely. People that are on these ridiculous low | | | | something to consider when looking at an low carb |
| carbohydrate diets also experience a sweetness to | | | | diet plan. |
| the breath as well. | | | | Kidney stones are also easily formed from too much |
| When the body does not have ample carbohydrates | | | | uric acid in the blood. Kidney stones are very painful |
| in store, it also causes mood swings and will make | | | | to have, and if you are a person that tends toward |
| you feel tired and out of energy altogether. | | | | having them regularly, it is unwise to be on a diet |
| Carbohydrates are so vital to our health, and one of | | | | that has a great deal of purines. |
| the things that will give us our energy source and | | | | Another thing that enters into the equation is cancer |
| vitality. You don't have to eat the unhealthy | | | | risks. Many whole-grain foods lower cancer risk such |
| carbohydrates, but consume those that are healthy | | | | as oats, potatoes, whole wheat breads, and grain |
| whole grains and contain fiber, which is something | | | | cereals. Low carbohydrate diets keep you at a higher |
| else lacking in a low carbohydrate diet. Eating foods | | | | risk for developing colon cancers, and stomach |
| such as whole grain cereals, oatmeal, whole wheat | | | | cancers. This is due to the fact that you are not |
| pasta and breads are the goodness of great nutrition | | | | getting any of the antioxidants you need to from |
| and will help you to lose weight in a much more | | | | fruits and vegetables. |
| satisfying manner. Low carb diets will not allow you | | | | And last but not least, bone disease such as |
| these foods, and therefore, make you feel pretty | | | | osteoperosis can result from a low carbohydrate diet. |
| miserable, and deprived most of all. | | | | If you consume mostly proteins for a very long time |
| Contrary to what others may believe, diets like | | | | without any whole grains in your diet, there will be no |
| Adkins promote the rate of heart disease since the | | | | antioxidants which help you store and use calcium |
| diet cuts out all good carbohydrates. Eating the fats | | | | and process Vitamin K. Calcium is what provides |
| the program instructs you to eat, will surely cause | | | | strength to the bones along with collagen, which you |
| cholesterol levels that are not pleasing. This is | | | | also don't receive from high protein diets. And Vitamin |
| because Adkins and similar low carbohydrate diet | | | | K works on the bones to strengthen them along with |
| plans have you consuming a great deal of animal fats | | | | calcium as well as helping blood to clot properly. |
| which contain many saturated fats. Saturated fat is | | | | So overall, before you decide to embark on a low |
| the fat which is NOT GOOD for you! This fat clogs | | | | carbohydrate diet plan instead of a well balanced diet |
| arteries causing artherosclerosis, heart attacks and | | | | with a lot of great nutrients, think again. Isn't your |
| strokes. When these plans ask you to not eat so | | | | health worth it? |
| many of the plant foods and root vegetables, then a | | | | |