[Jim Noble]

I agree that Atkins is basically right.

He's made a lot of enemies because he didn't do any research. The fact that he didn't do any research has left the questions about long-term metabolic consequences of "Atkins-like" diets open, when it could have been answered by 1975.

However, like a lot of other advances, the basic "CHO-insulin push-fat deposition" idea as the result of Atkins' flash insight in 1965 is almost certainly correct.

[Pharmboy]

And Jim, from an evolutionary point of view, hunter-gatherers just could NOT ingest that much concentrated carbs; we could only do it when we became agriculturalists a mere 15,000 years ago. We are not built for such high carbo diets as eaten today.