The history of no carbohydrate diet goes back to Vilhjalmur Stefansson who was a Canadian explorer.
He lived, for some time, with a hunting tribe known as Inuit and during his short stay he noticed that these people only consumed Meat and fish for daily survival and their diet consisted of very few carbohydrates in the form of berries during the summer season.
This led Stefansson to believe that humans can indeed exist on animal meat or in other words no carbohydrate diet.
Later in his life Stefansson and one of his friend can forward for a one year experiment at Bellevue Hospital in New York so as to prove that a human being can indeed survive on a completely carb free diet.
The duration of this experiment was set to be a year during which Stefansson and his friend ate nothing but meat, meat fat and internal organs of animals.
This experiment was done under strict supervision of hospital authorities and their progress was closely monitored.
Surprisingly, Stefansson and his friend were found to be in near- perfect condition after an year and they did not developed any diseases such as scurvy which experts of the time believed, will develop within a span of few months due to lack of Vitamin-C in meat based foods.
It is noteworthy to mention here that Stefansson and his friend have lived among Inuit people for many years and hence many experts speculated that their bodies may have become "conditioned" to a meat- based diet.
No carbohydrate diet is still something which is not accepted among the medical community and many dismiss it as a dangerous way to lose weight.
Moreover, recent research has also suggested that No Carbohydrate diet, which was quite popular among inuit, is responsible for several heart related diseases including heart attacks.
Another study conducted by Alexander Ströhle, Maike Wolters and Andreas Hahn in 2003 confirmed that the mortality rate among the Inuit people was very high from coronary heart disease.
It can be concluded from above that a No Carbohydrate diet is not a healthy decision especially for those who are not engaged in any kind of physical workout.
Even if you go to gym regularly, you would do yourself a favor by not going on a No Carbohydrate diet.
Rather one should go for a low carb diet such as Atkins, south beach or Zone diets which are pretty popular and well accepted among the masses.
A low carb diet also helps in decreasing the insulin formation in blood which results in quick weight loss in a natural way.