This is the antithesis of what the government recommends, so people around here should be more open to it. As others have mentioned, it is very close to the first phase of the Atkins diet.
What the government recommends has resulted in half the population being obese. Combine the government diet with widespread ingestion of fluoride via industrial waste disposal into our potable water supply (which lowers thyroid function) and you end up with a lot of very unhealthy overweight people.
A high fat diet is very good if it is made up of the right fats. Steak from conventionally raised beef, besides being mostly protein (excess of which also turns to body fat), has the wrong fat profile.