With the Atkins company filing for bankruptcy, a host of inaccuracies are again flooding the news wires.
1. The falsehood that Atkins was overweight when he died, even Mort Zuckerman from US News and World Reports repeated this on the Situation with Tucker Carlson on August 1. He wasn't. And more here.
2. That Atkins would have approved of the foods that the Atkins company put out after he died. Most of the Atkins foods were filled with Maltitol and were overpriced. This blog rarely, if ever, endorsed a food product put out by Atkins.
Embedded in this Reuters story is the following statistic:
The low-carb craze peaked in early 2004, when over 9 percent of U.S. adults claimed to be on such a diet, according to market research firm NPD Group. That figure declined to 2.2 percent last month.
No one said that everyone should be on the diet, however, I suspect that this number will go up as more and more research comes out about how certain people really respond to the Atkins diet, and for them, it is healthy.
Certain parts of what Atkins espoused pertain to everyone. Reduce sugar intake, increase fiber, and stay away from products made with white processed flour.