With the weather getting warmer, doesn’t everyone hurry up in fitness, and get ready for the season of skirts and tight pants? Are you excited if you heard of a diet way that you can eat fish and meat, and some delicious pecans without highly intensive exercises?

Atkins Diet: fish and meat can be eaten

The Atkins Diet is from Dr. Atkins from the USA. For the Atkins Diet, firstly carbohydrate shall be restricted. Food with high protein is allowed, i.e. no starch, and high sugar food is forbidden while meat and fish shall be eaten more. The core point is to control ADI of carbohydrate so as to transfer carbohydrate metabolic transformation to fat metabolic transformation.

Add pecans to the Atkins Diet

The Atkins Diet usually does not recommend nuts. But pecan is a pure natural low-carbohydrate and high-protein food. It means it is a wonderful choice for people considering the Atkins Diet. A handful of pecans (about 1 pound or 20 pieces) only contain 4g carbohydrate, lower than most of other foods.

The same as fish, egg, beans and meat, pecan belongs to the natural carbohydrate affirmed in Food Guide Pyramid issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile, 90% fat of pecans is unsaturated fat, which can hinder fat accumulation, add satiety, and can support lose weight favorably. It can also prevent from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases of the obese people.