The Atkins Nutritional Principles

The Atkins Nutritional Principles are the base of its working. By adopting these principles, you can gain the success of its four phases that would change your entire life. These principles are supported by a solid foundation of medical and nutritional scientific research. 

The four Atkins Nutritional Principles are:

• Weight Loss
  Your body burns Carbohydrate as the first fuel to be metabolized. When you cut down your intake of carbohydrates, your body converts from the burning of carbohydrate to burning fat as the main energy resource. The result-weight loss.
   
• Weight Maintenance
  Everyone has a synchronized carbohydrate level that performs fat burning and weight loss. This is called your Critical Carbohydrate Level for Losing (CCLL). Everyone also has a level of carbohydrate intake on that weight stands constant. This is known as your Atkins Carbohydrate Equilibrium (ACE). Atkins manages your both levels for weight maintenance.
   
• Good Health
  Atkins offers a controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach with nutritionally balanced and satisfactory diet to meet everyone’s nutritional needs and promote good health. It also combines easy to follow exercises, as regular exercise is also necessary for controlling weight, toning muscles and maintaining a sense of well-being. 
   
• Disease Prevention
  By following an individualized nutritional approach, people, who are dealing with high risk for chronic diseases, would feel improvement in their health.