Since the early 1900's, Americans have been obsessed with dieting. Everyone is always looking for the fast, easy way to get the job done; this leads to many fad diets. The latest craze in the fad diet world is the low-carb diet. Among these diets, the two that are the most recognized are the Atkins diet and the South beach diet. Though each is successful in their own ways, they have drawbacks that should be looked at before deciding to use one of the two. These drawbacks are keeping many skeptical dieters at bay for the time being.
             Through my research, I will evaluate a few different sources to find if this diet is not only effective, but also safe. I will seek to find articles that may be useful for someone making a decision on what diet to use. I will be evaluating The New York Times, The Long Beach Press-Telegram, and WebMD, which is a website, for their helpfulness on information pertaining to the topic, their credibility, and their ease of use.
             The first thing to look at when deciding what diet to attempt is how useful the diet is to you and your body. There are many factors that have to be taken into account when deciding this. These include how much weight you are trying to lose and also the amount of time you are trying to lose the weight in. For this information, all of the sources do a decent job, but The New York Times and The Long Beach Press-Telegram do a better job at giving specific details. The Long Beach Press-Telegram says that, "The low-carb diets should only be used when your weight is intervening with your health." Basically, only people who weigh 30% or more than they are supposed to should use the low-carb diet (Long Beach Press-Telegram). WebMD gives the same statistics. Since WebMD is a reliable source, these statistics are more convincing to me.
             Both The Long Beach Press-Telegram and WebMD also give useful information on the side effects and the upside to the low-carb...