I'm new here, and this is my first post, might not be a good start but I don't care.

How can anyone say Atkins isn't a "Fad diet" The definition of "Fad" is "A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze."

That's exactly what this is. It caught on because it works really fast and you don't have to exercise that much. In my lifetime (which hasn't been that long) I've learned that the only way to be healthy and stay in shape is to exercise, eat right, and stay away from garbage like cakes and cookies and crap like that. There are a lot of lazy people on the Atkins diet because they know they can loose weight real fast without exercising. Aren't "they" starting to reveal that the Atkin's diet has negative effects on the body? And the FDA still hasn't approved any of the "low carb" foods and snacks that are made, so the processed food companies are having a field day.

In reply to the come-back left for the vegan, involving "god" is a little unrelated here, but whether there is a "god" or not, humans did hunt animals, for survival, they used every part of the animal for their family and tribe, but it's a bit un natural to produce meat products (and by products) by mass killing, packaging, and charging as much as they do. I don't eat meat because the process is disagreeable to me. If things were the way they were prior to the agricultural revolution I would eat meat every day, because I would be hunting it myself. But in modern times, we don't really need meat in our diets. There are a hundred other ways to get protein and vitamins. Besides that, the companies that produce meat and sell it have turned "god's creatures" into a money making institution. So, maybe "god" put these animals here for us to eat (well, it depends on which or who's god you're referring to) but "he" never intended us to mass produce them like toy cars. But, just like it's my choice not to eat meat, it's anothers choice to eat it. So it's quite trivial to argue about it and tease eachother isn't it?

good day sirs and madam's