Cookbook talk:Atkins Diet Cooking

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My knowledge about the Atkins diet is only cursory but does it really contain no (== 0) carbohydrates. I doubt it. I suppose it is rather a low carbohydrate high fat and diet. w:Atkins Nutritional Approach
Kpjas 18:26 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

No, in fact it doesn't. The "Atkins Diet" described in this writeup is referring to the first phase of the diet, "Induction". Despite popular hearsay, Induction is not the entire Atkins program; it is but a two-week program for beginning the Atkins diet. Also, the limit is 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. The limit increases to each person's needs over the course of the program.--66.24.4.236 06:31, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It's generally impossible to consume a no-carb diet due to the presence of 'incidental' carbohydrates - the lactose in milk and even cream products, for instance (however, there is considerably less in higher-fat creams (table, whipping, etc) per serving and some preferentially consume these). Even animal tissue has SOME carbs in the form of residual glycogen but it is negligible. Generally the only way you're going to achieve a true no-carb diet is by going on a traditional arctic Inuit style diet.