AR-News: Low-carb 'lifestyle' goes mainstream Atkins diet, once considered an oddity,

[jim robertson]

Low-carb 'lifestyle' goes mainstream Atkins diet, once considered an oddity, 
spawns stores, Web sites and imitators
By Marco R. della Cava
USA TODAY
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Not only have her sacrifices been few (''I had to switch to low-carb chips 
-- no big deal''), but she's allowed cheese, steak and a Southern staple 
most diets would ban. ''I can still fry chicken. I just have to dip it in 
crushed pork skins,'' says Rhoda, who has lost 15 pounds. ''It's the first 
diet I've stuck with.''

Though the so-called ''low-carb lifestyle'' has been around since 1972's Dr. 
Atkins' Diet Revolution: The High Calorie Way to Stay Thin Forever, this 
newfound acceptance hasn't come easy.

Harvard report revived diet

Once a maligned diet -- when Atkins' book came out, the American Medical 
Association immediately labeled his approach ''potentially dangerous,'' and 
Congress summoned him to defend his science -- low-carbers attribute its 
current explosion partly to May articles in the New England Journal of 
Medicine and Harvard Health Letter.
full story:
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030819/5417833s.htm




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