Low Carb Foods

There is possibly no effective weight loss diet plan without including low carb foods in it. Few years back the craze was with low fat or fat free diet for attaining and maintaining a healthy weight. In some ways, this craze was beneficial to health, but in some other ways, it was not. For example, fat free milk is good for health; however, low fat cookies may offer high calories almost similar to normal ones.

Recent years, the vogue aligns with low carbohydrate or in short, low carb foods. It is quite common to see in grocery shops that there are varieties of foods bearing ‘low-carb’ labels on them. The list may include the food types of muffins, breads, pizzas, cakes, pasta, sandwiches, tortillas, cookies, beers and many others.

In general low carb diet prevents or strictly restricts bread, pasta and other starchy foods, particularly those foods made up of white flour. But it is not so rigid also; you can still have some bread while maintaining your healthy diet. There are a whole host of low carb foods available in the market. To stay on low carb diet, obesity is not the only condition. You can even switch to it, if you are just calorie conscious. Theoretically, low carb foods offer low calories, so logic says that these foods are helpful in maintaining health.

Research on Low Carb
Some studies claim that people living on low carb foods actually eat more than people in standard low fat plans, however, the former group still loses weight than the later group. However, the report is strongly controversial in nature such as Atkins diet, which claims that low carb foods actually consume more calories.
The research supporting the benefits of low carb diet claims that low carb diets are more rewarding, so they do not feel hunger. According to Atkins diet, people in low-carb, high-fat diets eat more than people in standard diet.

Requirements of Vitamin Supplements
If you are in low carb diet, it is essential that you must take vitamin and mineral supplements. In fact, we become overweight due to the fact of our addiction over eating foods high in carbohydrates, but lack in carbohydrate may result in nutritional deficiency. So vitamin and mineral supplements are necessary. It is always advisable that you should take your vitamin supplement before going to bed.

Water Cure
‘Water is life, water means life’ – we all know that we can’t live without water. Water is also necessary to cleanse your system. It helps in maintaining proper kidney and liver functions. The usefulness of water temperature doesn’t really matter. Some prefer cold water, whereas some prefer to stay with lukewarm as well.

Complications during low carb diet
Some people report few common complications during their low carb diet program. One of such complication is bad breath. It occurs mainly due to ketones production. Ketones are produced when body fat is converted into energy. However, not all the ketones contribute to bad health, but many people simply quit from low carb program because of bad breath problem. In addition to bad breath, some people also experience intense odor in perspiration.
Additionally, the experience of leg cramps is also reported by few people on low carb diet. It is typically occurred during the initial phases of the low carb diet program. Inadequate vitamin and mineral supplements are believed to be the primary causes of leg cramps.

Controversy
However in practice, the concept of low carb foods is not what it is claimed. The benefits found from these foods are questionable. Some researchers even claim these foods as a way for nutrition loss rather than weight loss. Some of the weight loss programs suggest replacing carb foods with protein ones, but the level of calorie consumption doesn’t really differ. Moreover, the foods’ labels do not carry any meaning, because there is no definition of ‘low carb’ approved by FDA.