• The typical American style of eating is grossly mismatched to the normal human metabolism.
• Most obesity is the result of metabolic disturbances, not over consumption of fat.
• Studies consistently show that sugar, refined white flour and junk foods are bad for your health, your energy level, your mental state and your figure.
• Low-fat diets are in effect high-carbohydrate diets and bring on the very problems that they were intended to protect us from.
• By doing Atkins you will control your weight, achieve good health and help prevent disease.
• The Atkins Nutritional Approach is composed of protein and fat, both essential to the human body, plus controlled quantities of the most nutrient-dense carbohydrates,primarily in the form of vegetables.

Protein in the original Greek means "of first importance." The Greeks had it right! Protein-complex chains of amino acids-is the basic building block of life and essential to almost every chemical reaction in the human body. Food rich in protein includes meat, fish, fowl, eggs-most of which contain almost no carbohydrates-and cheese, nuts, and seeds. Many vegetables are also well supplied, but unlike animal foods, don't contain all the essential amino acids.

Fat provides glycerol and essential fatty acids, which the body cannot make. The thirty-year-longcampaign against dietary fat is as misguided as it is futile. Fat is found in meat, fish, fowl,dairy products and the oils derived from nuts and seeds and a few vegetables such as avocados.Oils extracted from these foods represent one hundred percent fat and contain no carbohydrates.

Carbohydrate includes sugars and starches that are chains of sugar molecules. Althoughcarbohydrate provides the quickest source of energy, we eat much more of it, by far, than ourbody needs to be healthy. Vegetables do contain some carbohydrates, but they also contain awide and wondrous variety of vitamins and minerals. However, you can eat plenty of vegetableswith high concentrations of beneficial nutrients and still control your carbs. On the other hand,carbohydrates such as those in sugar and white flour contain almost nothing that your body needsin large quantities.