De-carb your way to health! - Fitness.com

You don������t have to take a course to understand what a low-carb diet is all about. From celeb favourites to some even designed by doctors, low-carb diets have mushroomed all over the health industry. We are now faced with a mind-boggling number of options to choose from -- the Atkin������s Diet, High Protein Diet, Stillman Diet, Scarsdale Diet, Hollywood Diet, Ketogenic Diet, Zone Diet and many more. Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are dietary programs that restrict carbohydrate consumption usually for weight control. Low carb diets are based on the premise that a diet very low in carbohydrate leads to a reduction in the body's insulin production, resulting in fat and protein stores being used as its main energy source. Lots of Hollywood stars adopt a low-carb diet to drop a dress size for a film or remain thin, but those usually involve drastic cutbacks that may not be healthy or even sustainable in the long run. You need to know how cutting carbohydrates works, what foods have carbohydrates, and how to eat a balanced low-carb diet with sufficient fiber, protein and fats. Most diets ask you to cut down on carbohydrate in your diet and increase your protein and fat intake. Nothing derails a diet faster than realizing you have no low-carb food or snack around when the hunger pangs strike.