Therefore, we insist that before you embark on any diet, check with a nutritionist to evaluate you and advise you to carry it out.

Here, the pros and cons of the famous dissociated diet:

advantage

You can take the time necessary
No need to measure the weight or quantities of food
It is a diet rich in fiber, low in saturated fat and is based on the selection of natural foods
Helps improve digestion, and preventing a mixture of hard and heavy food for the stomach to digest

disadvantages

You know the composition of food, since it is based not to mix carbohydrates with proteins
There is no scientific basis to support this diet
It tends to be monotonous, which motivate to leave or be large binge that would make you regain the weight lost
It helps to correct poor eating habits

What does this mean? That this kind of digestion you consuming the body, so it must use its fat reserves, and as a result produces the desired weight loss.

To successfully perform this separation of food, and you can come out successful (a) of the dissociated diet, put these tips:

Eat carbohydrates for lunch and have a sense of satiety that keep you from eating more.
Do not mix carbohydrates, for example if you eat potatoes and rice should not eat.
Do not skip meals throughout the day, as this may cause you to lose nutrients.
Eat protein at dinner. The dishes you can eat in two or one.

Here a proposal dissociated diet:

breakfast

Coffee or tea
2 slices of bread with one tablespoon olive deaceitede

picnic

2 dried apricots and nuts

lunch

First course. Raw salad (no corn or beets) and varied (lettuce, watercress, arugula, etc.). Deaceitede dressed with olive oil 1 tablespoon mustard and onion powder.

Second course. Choose a plate of pasta, rice, potatoes or baked beans with vegetables.

picnic

1 or 2 pieces of fruit (kiwi, orange, strawberry, etc.).

dinner

Prime boiled or sauteed plato.Verduras or soup / mashed vegetables and olive deaceitede con1 tablespoon dressing.

Second course. Choose from meat, fish, poultry or eggs, cooked simply.

How it works

It consists of consuming large amounts of protein and minimal carbohydrates to slim. The reason that Dr. Atkins was used as follows: the body it is easier to burn carbohydrates than protein, hence turns carbohydrates into energy and protein stored as fat.

Therefore, if we consume almost pure protein and almost no carbohydrates, the only energy supply are fat reserves. So to survive, the body spends the accumulated fat protein, making us lose weight immediately.

The permitted and forbidden

Almost 90% of the diet is based on consumption of protein and fat, regardless of whether they are high in cholesterol or saturated as red meats, sausages, cheese, eggs, seafood, butter, margarine, oils, mayonnaise, butter, cream milk, yoghurt, whole, and so on.

10% of the carbohydrates obtained from vegetables, and should be kept to a minimum pasta, flour, rice, breads, legumes (lentils, beans, beans), sugar, alcoholic drinks and milk.

Also avoid fruits and vegetables rich in fiber (potato, carrot), and that fiber prevents absorption of fat in the intestine. Green vegetables are limited to 50 grams per meal.

Model diet

Breakfast
• Scrambled eggs with ham or bacon
• Coffee or tea without sugar

Lunch
• A steak and salad, or roast pork with vegetables, or trout with spinach or filet of beef covered with cheese and roasted tomatoes

Dinner
• Shrimp cocktail with toast, or grilled chicken with salad, or lamb chops with peas

Beverages
• Mineral water
• tomato juice or fruit
• Red Wine

However …

This diet has been widely criticized by physicians because of the following:

1. Saturated fats high in cholesterol and protein have proved harmful to health are related to cancer diseases specifically, increase the level of uric acid, triglycerides and cholesterol, which accumulates in the arteries and is a danger to the heart, and favoring the presence of crystalline deposits in joints.

2. When meeting stripped of carbohydrates, the body fat for energy, but also in the muscles, causing muscle wasting and fatigue.

3. The absence of fruit and vegetables reduced the contribution can lead to risky lack of vitamins and minerals.

4. Lack of fiber causes constipation problems and accumulation of metabolic wastes.

In conclusion

The Atkins diet should be no more than 30 days, the question remains in the air is: a longer period, results are achieved? What we can say is to be checked by a doctor, to ensure that their side effects do not affect your health.

You have to be careful with this diet, because being so low in carbohydrates can cause you bad breath (halitosis) for two reasons: to burn fat you release the breath ketones that cause odor, and high-protein foods produce more sulfur the surface of the tongue.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Atkins himself had a history of heart attack, heart failure and hypertension, and was obese when he died at age 72 by a head injury after slipping, though the proponents indicated that their problems health had no connection to the diet that followed.