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Atkins challenged traditional notions of nutrition with his diet. It's natural that doctors who had the 'food pyramid' drilled into their heads in medical school will resist the idea.
The thing is, if you've had even one semester of Biochem, you can see how the Atkins diet works. Simple sugars and simple starches break down into glycogen with almost zero energy input from the body. Protein and fats require a significant amount of energy from the body to be broken down into glycogen. Therefore, you can eat more raw calories of protein and fat and still lose weight.
Remember how everyone says that you burn more calories eating celery than you get from the celery? Similar principle.
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