[papertyger]

I really don't have anything against Atkins, or his diet.

Perhaps not, but you most definitely have a problem with admitting when your reach has overcome your grasp. Is it that costly for you to admit making an assumption that was invalid?

It's a diet book, not an exercise book. But it seems obvious you're not going to concede the point with anything approaching polite correction.

[AlbionGirl]

I never implied it was a fitness book, just that as a Doctor he seemed to me to be giving the importance of fitness secondary place. And as a Doctor, I didn't see how he could responsibly do that.

He wasn't some regular schmuck just doing a diet book, he was a Doctor, for crying out loud, that changes the equation a little bit, IMO.

But here you go, I was wrong you're right, it was a diet book, end of story.