The high fat, low carbohydrate diet has become increasingly popular over recent years. Its initial creation was designed to combat common beliefs that if a diet contained high levels of fat it would lead to weight gain. This diet revolves around the chemical activity that occurs within the body that converts the food consumed into energy and other life essential products; more commonly known as an individual’s metabolism. The main belief is that by consuming a lot of refined and processed carbohydrates the body can not break them down quick enough into energy or store it as glycogen; therefore much of it remains unused. The unused carbohydrates are then converted to and stored as fat within the body.

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