[Cincinatus]

So, as to whether it’s possible to follow the Atkins diet healthfully or tweak it to make it safe and healthful, the answers are no and no.

Typical pseudoscience/journalism masquerading as a "scientific test." They set up a strawman as to what constitutes "healthful" and then find the Atkins diet to be "not healthful." But their strawman defined "healthful" as "non-Atkins" to begin with! (e.g., healthful must include "balance" and "grains and fruit.")

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You tell 'em Cincinatus!

[krb]

I don't think it's as much a strawman argument as it is simple begging the question, or petitio principii.