diabetes food pyramid

For years the medical profession had poured scorn on Dr Robert Atkins and his low-carb diet, while many of the corporate giants of America's food-processing and beer industries could only watch their profits plummet as millions of Americans followed his advice to swap flour-, starch- and sugar-based products for high-fat and protein-rich food. But, try as the critics might, the Atkins Diet phenomenon grew and grew, becoming the most extraordinarily popular food fad in post-war US history.