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Look at the NY Times bestseller book list. Week after week, the Atkins and South Beach books stay in the top 10.

Baby boomers are starting to discover that low fat alone will not keep the weight off as they enter middle age. But low carb will.

The hesitation to roll out dedicated low-carb menu offerings may stem from concern about the safety of those diets. Many nutritionists still conform to the standard dietary guidelines outlined in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (news - web sites)'s food pyramid, whose base is carbohydrates. They question the stricter phases of diets like Atkins, which recommend ample quantities of protein in the form of red meat, butter and other fatty foods, in lieu of breads and starches.

The food pyramid doesn't work as can be shown by the near epidemic obesity in Americans, particularly children. I lowered both weight and cholesteral by eliminating sugar, white flour and nearly all "processed" foods from my diet but I guess I ought to stop doing that according to the "experts". Pass the wonderbread and the twinkies...I've decided to die young. *sarcasm*

Look at the NY Times bestseller book list. Week after week, the Atkins and South Beach books stay in the top 10.

My wife is a borderline Type II (Adult Onset) diabetic. She's tried everything including Atkin's but then she decided to go completely organic and vegetarian. Except smoked salmon. ;-)

Soy milk, pasta was OK, feta cheese and greens. Not much help.

She started the South Beach diet and her fasting sugars are under a 100. She's doing great and feeling better all the time. She should probably should be posting this cause she knows a lot more about it but the SB diet seems to be doing well for her - measurably with actual blood tests.