The Dangers of Obesity

Obesity, a word which can brings anyone‘s attention into focus these days and a top contributor to other diseases as the obesity related illnesses are currently responsible for 300,000 deaths per year in the United States .As per the latest official statistics, nearly 25 percent of Canadian children and around 60 percent of Canadian adults happen to be obese. And it’s the leading cause of death of nearly 25,000 Canadians annually. Because sedentary lifestyles, lack of exercise, and stress also contribute to this problem, people want a quick fix to weight loss and naturally that leads them to fad diets or pills, instead of behavior modification. (Kaur, 2011). The Atkins' Diet, one of the best known of the low carbohydrate diet programs, promotes the idea that carbohydrates are an overweight person's barrier to loosing weight. This essay will examine specifically what the Atkins' Diet calls for and the mounting body of evidence against low carbohydrate diets. Atkins Nutritional Approach is one the way which is popular among the people wants to lose pounds quickly .The Atkins diet stresses that people reduce their carbohydrate consumption and increase protein and fat consumption, which in turn can potentially lead to many physical problems for people following this diet. Some people are not fully aware of all the potential risks that come a long with following a diet such as the Atkins diet, such as problems stemming from the production of ketones. As with every diet, there are side effects, but at the same time there are several benefits too. Before people go on the Atkins diet or diets like this, they should consider both sides and especially the negative side-effects.
In 1972 Dr. Robert Atkins published Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution and in 1992 published Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, an updated version of his first book. Atkins' books promote a controlled carbohydrate diet and provide the dieter with a four-step program to losing weight. The first