[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.

[Hoodlum91]

"All I am saying is that people who develope the food pyramid are pretty smart people"

Actually - the food pyramid is horrible and largely created to appease lobbyist interests. LOTS of money went into making breads and grains the largest group. They may be smart, but they also knows who butters their bread, so to speak.

[auto power]

To each his own I guess....but....there has been no other diet that we could live with and still maintain our health.