I think Atkins does encourage people to eat lean meats but I don't know think everybody follows that rule. For example on the sbd you are not supposed to have any bacon outside of canadian bacon because you are supposed to always try and eat the leaner healthier cuts of meat.

In the end I feel as if both eating plans are probably pretty similar after induction. sbd probably stresses the lowfat/good fat and good carb a bit more than atkins.

Go to the prevention sbd forum ...and do a search for atkins on it and you can see all the comparisons that other peple have made. Some switch over with better results and others go back because atkins was more successful for them.

In the end you control your diet to be what you want it to be~