by Jennifer Kirkman

Created on: July 06, 2009   Last Updated: July 07, 2009

A low-carb diet is indeed, very unsafe! These diets like Atkins for example, do not make you feel well. Low-carb diets are meant as a quick fix, and do not promote any long term weight loss. When you go on a low-carb diet plan, there is a severe reduction in calories, leaving out many good foods which are very nourishing to the body. Many people experience unwanted food cravings, and have a very narrow selection of what they can and cannot eat.

Many low-carb diets like Atkins, cause ketones. Ketones are not healthy for the body for any length of time. A ketonic state is very hard on the kidneys, and can easily cause them to eventually shut down completely. People that are on these ridiculous low carbohydrate diets also experience a sweetness to the breath as well.

When the body does not have ample carbohydrates in store, it also causes mood swings and will make you feel tired and out of energy altogether. Carbohydrates are so vital to our health, and one of the things that will give us our energy source and vitality. You don't have to eat the unhealthy carbohydrates, but consume those that are whole grains and contain fiber, which is something else lacking in a low carbohydrate diet. Eating foods such as whole grain cereals, oatmeal, whole wheat pasta and breads are the goodness of great nutrition and will help you to lose weight in a much more satisfying manner. Low carb diets will not allow you these foods, and therefore, make you feel pretty miserable, and deprived most of all.

Contrary to what others may believe, diets like Atkins promote the rate of heart disease since the diet cuts out all good carbohydrates. Eating the fats the program instructs you to eat, will surely cause cholesterol levels that are not pleasing. This is because Atkins and similar low carbohydrate diet plans have you consuming a great deal of animal fats which contain many saturated fats. Saturated fat is the fat which is NOT GOOD for you! This fat clogs arteries causing artherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes. When these plans ask you to not eat so many of the plant foods and root vegetables, then a lot of the good stuff meaning fiber, and naturally occuring good vitamins, are not part of your diet. This sets the stage for poor cardiac health. Plant foods such as sweet potatoes, oats, grapes, bananas, carrots, etc., help your good (LDL) cholesterol.

Low carbohydrate diets can cause a person to have gout. This is due to the promotion of uric acid since these fatty foods on

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