What is a Low Carb (Low Carbohydrate) Diet?
The Low Carb Diet is a ketogenic diet whose best known proponent is Dr. Robert C. Atkins. On a ketogenic diet one eats foods that allow the body to achieve a state known as ketosis- lipolysis (the process of dissolving fat). When fat is used up metabolically, it breaks down into glycerol and free fatty acids, which in turn break down into pairings of two-carbon compounds called “ketone bodies”, leaving a newer fatty acid, shorter in chain length by the loss of the carbon fragment that has entered the metabolic pool to be used as fuel.
