The Atkins Diet

As our society grows more and more obsessed with the concept of weight loss the question on many peoples' minds seems to be: Are these new "miracle" diets really worth trying or can they be detrimental to ones health? The most popular "miracle" diet of our time seems to be "The Atkins Diet," which involves eating very few to no carbohydrates. One downfall to this method, as research is currently finding, is that people on this type of diet tend to increase their intake of high cholesterol and fat foods leading to as many medical problems as obesity may have caused them.
The "Atkins" diet is what is called a ketogenic diet. This genre of diet focuses on only protein consumption, meaning the dieter eats nothing with sugar or carbohydrates (i.e. no bread...