- حمية الدكتور اتكينتر THE DIET OF Dr. ATKINS

1- Dr. Atkins's Diet

THE DIET OF DR. ATKINS

Dr. Albert Atkins was very thin since childhood, so much so that he was considered one of the thinnest students during his high school studies, as his weight was 62 kg compared to his height of 183 cm.

When he started studying medicine at the university, his appetite for food suddenly opened up and he became a glutton, so his weight increased until he reached 80 kg at the end of the university stage.

He worked as an assistant doctor in a New York hospital, and during his night shift he would eat a large amount of hospital food. When he finished his training period, his weight had become about 95 kg and he began to grow older than his age, so he decided to follow a diet rich in proteins and very poor in carbohydrates because he loved meat, fish and eggs and could not bear hunger, and he set himself a diet that he called (The Diet Revolution) and wrote a book about it and called it by the same name.
This diet has spread throughout America because it consists of meat and fat that the American people love. The main rules of this diet are to eat meat, fish, poultry, eggs, sausage and hot dogs in unlimited quantities and only about (100) grams of fatty cheese per day. As for all types of fats, grease and oils, a person can eat them without limits. As for carbohydrates, they are strictly prohibited except for a few green lettuce leaves per day, which provide the body with 4 grams of carbohydrates that the brain needs to perform its function. So, in this diet, calories are counted, rather than grams of carbohydrates, i.e. sugars and starches. As for milk and its derivatives, it must also be completely avoided because milk contains carbohydrates, i.e. milk sugar (lactose), while cheese contains a very small amount of carbohydrates, i.e. (2), so about (100) grams of it can be eaten per day, provided that it is full-fat. The absence of carbohydrates, i.e. sugars and starches, in the foods consumed in this diet, which provide the body with quick energy, forces the body to burn its fat reserves to provide them as quick energy to meet the body's needs. During this biochemical metabolic process, a substance called ketone appears in the blood and urine, indicating the burning of fat reserves in the body. Ketone is nothing but part of the waste and waste resulting from this metabolic process, i.e. the burning of fat reserves in the human body. The high amount of ketone in the blood and urine indicates the high amount of fat burned and stored in the body.

The following is a one-day program from Dr. Atkins' diet:

Breakfast: Omelette with cheese (3 eggs + 50 g of full-fat melted cheese with 100 g of meat of any type fried in the form of an omelette). Coffee or tea without sugar or with artificial sweetener.

Lunch: Half a whole chicken with skin - a plate of lettuce salad, vinegar and oil. Mineral water.

Dinner: A large piece of meat weighing 300 g, grilled as a steak, covered with Swiss cheese, blood content about 45 percent, with sardine salad with mineral water - coffee or tea.

This diet is not suitable for people who suffer from high cholesterol and uric acids in the blood, and it is best to consult a doctor before following this diet.