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A 4 page research paper that discusses what constitutes a healthy diet and then looks specifically at the Atkins Diet Plan and argue that this plan is not healthy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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looks at a popular diet plan, the Atkins Diet, and considers it in terms of health, as well as efficacy. First of all, however, it is helpful to consider what
experts consider to be a good diet. Summerfield (2000) stresses that lowering fat consumption is an essential principle that should be incorporated into an effective diet. The Womens Health
Trial determined that decreasing the amount of "high-fat milk products, red meat and added fats and oils" consumed in the diet significantly reduced the percentage of dietary fat (Summerfield, 2000,
p. 368). There is consensus among scientists that reduction of dietary fat promotes cardiovascular health. The U.S. governments official food guide, the Food Guide Pyramid presents a graphic that
visually represents the latest data on what nutrition science has shown to constitute a healthy diet (Summerfield, 2000). The base of the pyramid constitutes the food group that should make
up the bulk of the diet, that is, "bread, cereal, rice and pasta, and the apex of the pyramid indicates the foods that should be eaten only in small quantities,
i.e., "fats, oils and sweets" (Summerfield, 2000, p. 373). The Atkins Diet is the antithesis of this advice. According to the Atkins website, carbohydrates are responsible for weight gain
and when carbohydrates are restricted, weight loss naturally results (Atkins, 2009). The Atkins Diet stresses eating protein and is high in fat. Nevertheless, the diet is still widely used, in
part because the popular media continues to offer questionable information about it to the public. For example, an article that ran in the New York Times magazine in July
of 2002 by Gary Taubes argues that numerous food experts and researchers were supporting the Atkins Diet. However, Liebman (2002) followed up with the experts that Taubes cites and they
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