Diet Plans For A Low-Carb Diet Explored

Although the low-carb fad has by and large passed, there are still a huge number of people sold on the benefits of the lifestyle, and searching for the best diet plans for a low-carb diet. With the untimely death of Dr. Robert C. Atkins from injuries sustained in a fall, the door opened wide for pretenders to the Atkins Diet throne. From the Zone Diet to the South Beach diet to a host of others, all of the low-carb diet plans out there have some basic similarities:

• Emphasis on lean protein intake
• Avoidance of grains
• Very little sugar of any kind
• High intake of dietary fiber, especially in whole wheat form

The benefits of these diets, according to their research, are manifold. Essentially, the idea is that by depriving the body of all forms of carbohydrates except for those in whole grain foods, you deprive it of a supply of easily broken down simple sugars, which it prefers to use for quick energy. This forces it to "eat" body fat instead, breaking that down for fuel.

A byproduct of fat breakdown is ketones, which are reported to suppress hunger cravings and help stabilize blood sugar, which leads to the pancreas being asked to produce less insulin. This reduces strain on the system and minimizes the craving for sweets that is the downfall of many dieters with an overactive sweet tooth.

There are actually a wide variety of angles on the low-carb diet program, one of which is the NeanderThin diet, by Raymond V. Audette. It is at the vanguard of "primitive eating" diets, which suggest that we as a race have gone wrong in the excessive modernization of our food supply, that somehow by processing and refining our food, we have caused harmful changes that are reflected in our ill health and obesity. The problem with putting such a diet under the low-carb umbrella, however, is that Neanderthal humans were hunter-gatherers, who subsisted both on meat and on vast amounts of carbohydrate-rich forage such as berries, fruits and wild grains. However, the tenets of such a plan are interesting to contemplate.

The NeanderThin is but one example of a plan that, while it gets put under the low-carb umbrella, is not truly a low-carb plan. Before you make your choice, do some research on the Internet and among your friends to make sure you settle on a plan that is right for you, and will truly work.

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