Atkins goes broke

The Atkins company has reportedly filed chapter eleven as a result of a decrease in the diet's popularity. The Atkins craze made "low-carb" a household phrase, and also made people fat and more unhealthy. Well, it made people lose weight at first, but then two weeks later when dieters would eat a piece of bread, they would get fatter than they were before. In fact, the diet's innovator Dr. Robert Atkins suffered hypertension, congestive heart failure, myorcardial infarcation, and weighed in at a whopping 258 lbs (he was 6' tall) when he died. Don't believe me low-carb aficionados? You can check out the medical examiner's report on Atkins here.

The Atkins company's plummet in earnings signals a positive development in the diet arena. It means that people are beginning to realize that it may not be healthy to eat sausage with a side of bacon for breakfast, and that fruits and vegetables are not the poison foods that Atkins purported. But Atkins wasn't all bad. The extreme diet spurred the country's curiosity and interest in weight loss and nutrition, and hopefully people have moved on to more healthy forms of nutrition...Like the Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle crap your brains out diet.