Hi Alastair,
First of all, Ned accurately lists his plan as being something other than Atkins.

And if you look at the earlier posts, you will see that his low fat (Dr Atkins was quite definite that his was a high fat plan) style of eating is far from Atkins.

Again, I am not criticizing Ned's particular plan as such. It works for him and that is great.

But this is the Atkins forum. Therefore it is for discussion of the Atkins plan. And the original Atkins plan, written when he was still alive, advocated whole foods rather than "frankenfoods."

Unfortunately, after Dr Atkins' death, the Atkins organization concentrated more on marketing their products than in promoting the use of whole foods, as Dr Atkins himself advocated.

Rosebud