[auto power]

People who do not read the facts about Atkins are really under a misconception of what Atkins really does. For one thing, Atkins burns fat instead of surger because you are not taking in high carbs which convert to surger. How do we know this? We've been on Atkins for 10 years, we're lean and mean and our doctors keep encouraging us to keep on Atkins. Physicians encourage patients with Diabetes and Heart problems maintain a diet on Atkins.

[McGavin999]

The only problem I have with Atkins is my own lack of imagination. I can never think of enough things to add varity to my diet and end up eating the same thing over and over until I get sick of it.

[HOTTIEBOY]

When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years, this is the most dangerous to the public if followed for any length of time."

I am no nutritionist but there you have it.

The warnings from medical authorities continue to this day. "People need to wake up to the reality," former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes, that the Atkins Diet is "unhealthy and can be dangerous."

Now here's my thoughts, for what they are worth. People like the surgeon general don't stand to make any money off these things, so you can pretty much be assured that there is no motive behind what they say. People that are selling the diet do have money to be made in it.

""The world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals,[7] calls the Atkins Diet "a nightmare of a diet."[8] The official spokesperson of the American Dietetic Association elaborated: "The Atkins Diet and its ilk--any eating regimen that encourages gorging on bacon, cream and butter while shunning apples, all in the name of weight loss--are a dietitian's nightmare."

But hey, if it works for you... All I am saying is that people who develope the food pyramid are pretty smart people. We should listen to them.