A low carbohydrate diet is generally used for losing weight in obese people. Some low carbohydrate diets are considered to have health benefits that are beyond weight loss, such as reduction in risk factors that are associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome.
There are supporters of any diet program and critics as well. In addition, a lot of diet plans have advantages and disadvantages; this includes the low carbohydrate diet.
In 1863 an overweight Englishman, named William Banting, published “Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public”. In his letter, Banting describes a diet for weight control by giving up bread, butter, milk, sugar, beer and potatoes. Throughout the 19th century diabetes was treated with a very low carb diet, known as the Ketogenic Diet. This is how the High Fat-Low Carb diet first came about.
