Now that the Atkins diet craze is dead -- the low-carb craze creator Atkins Nutritionals filed for bankruptcy in 2005 -- what'll be the next fad for food companies to jump on?
The bankruptcy filing of Atkins Nutritionals in late July signaled the twilight of America's latest diet obsession, as carb counters realized, to their amazement, that man cannot live on pork rinds...
These should be fat times for Atkins Nutritionals. As growing numbers of overweight Americans embrace reduced-carbohydrate foods, they're fueling a diet craze estimated to be worth $10 billion this...
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Face it, you can't escape Atkins. Some 32 million Americans are on some version of the high-protein, low-carb diet. But what we want to know is, can you profit from this mania?
The Lexus RX-300--license plate EGGMAN1--barrels west on Route 30 in Pennsylvania's York County. We're on the road to Wellsville, a farm community blanketed in December's first snowfall. At the whe...
Robert Atkins doesn't want dessert. "I've got to lose 3 pounds," says the famed diet doctor, sitting in a French restaurant near his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He passes on the creme...
Americans have never been bigger--and neither has the diet industry.
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