<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> In response to a recent post sayhing that the Atkins diet is not healthy....wrong, wrong, wrong! first, most people are VERY misinformed as to exactly what consitutes the Atkins diet. It is NOT just meat. The restricted part of the diet lasts only two tweeks when you eat protein and salads and then add other veggies....except the starchy ones and grains {sounds like a gf diet, doesn't it?]. altho fats are technically allowed, your taste for them quickly diminishes. I find I eat less fat than before. the Atkins diet is bascially the old diabetes diet. There is a website on Maelstrom for low carb diabetes. We all limit carbs. The leading expert in diabetes, Dr Bernstein, who has written several books, advocates a limit of 30 carbs ad ay [for the rest of your life]. My nutionist has stated that the low fat diet has been found NOT to work in eighty percent of the general population. Most of us do better on a a low carb diet. The amt of carbs that is optimum for us is an individual thing. Atkins recommends slows adding carbs until we reach the limit for us. Low Fat has become an industry. evem tho it has not been shown to lower heart attacks and/or cholestrol. My nutionist said that low fat is not even being taught in graduate level nutrition classes. As for the comment that just by increasing activities and cutting calories you will lose weight....sorry that doesn't work for everyone.