Exactly Kristine !... Sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness repeating this message. I see people get all excited about new LC food, never questionning what it's made of. There even was a girl in one of the other forums that wanted to eat only Atkins shakes and bars in order to stimulate her weight loss. I see too many people buying Atkins products with blind confidence just because it bears the name Atkins.

There is one factor that I am not sure has been fully considered by LC'ers. It's my theory that one of the reasons Atkins works is because it forces people to eat a lot of fresh whole food. It forces people to wean themselves from pre-packaged and manufactured foods. Basically, it makes people go back to eat an approximation of how things were 50 years ago. I think that's where a lot of the health benefits of Atkins come from.

I suspect that many of those benefits will evaporate once the full Snackwellization (great word that!) of LC food will have taken place.