Dana Carpender wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: How many of the people in this discussion who
> are referring to Atkins as a "scam" or claim it's unhealthy have
> actually *read* Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, or any book written by
> Dr. Atkins, for that matter?
>
[ All the cross - addresses deleted ]

I read the first Atkins book through about the first 60 pages. It was
such nonsense I kept waiting for the punch line. When it hadn't
appeared by then, I tossed it. Then to my surprise it didn't go away
and developed a whole generation of True Believers. So I read
whichever was the latest book about a year and a half ago. Once again
it's premises were ludicrous but now there was a lot of pseudo-science
arrayed around it. All the same fallacies and omissions and lack of
rigor of all the other fads that Americans surround themselves with.

Not that my reading experience means anything, but: you asked. -aem