Thoughts on the Atkins Diet and the Media Spin-Doctors The current spin the media has taken is that this way of eating we are following is supposedly a diet that, according to them, consists of nothing but beef and bacon. Now, I suppose you could do that, but it'd be pretty boring, and not at all a way of eating to base one's life on! I for one don't have a menu of only one kind of food. For meats, I mix it up, or I get really, really bored. I don't eat just a ton of beef! That's not a "way of life", it really WOULD be a "diet". An icky diet!!!  I eat a lot of poultry, and recently found something lovely, pork cube steaks, that are so tender you could cut them with a fork!! I just bought a nice box of hake, a mild white fish, and my son loved it last night, broiled with lemon and pepper. The little creepazoid had the nerve to tell me he didn't even know it was FISH!! He says that's a compliment... He supposedly doesn't *like* fish... LOL Anyway, the media is going to put a spin on anything that seems a little different. Totally cutting out cookies and pancakes makes sense to them. Cutting out sugar makes sense to them. But giving the green light to foods that the "establishment" have labeled "evil" like butter and red meat is really rocking their reality a bit I think... LOL Think of yourselves as "pioneers", like the American pioneers, traveling into the "dangerous and wild" West, to a life of freedom! Cross that Mississippi!! Leave the old ways behind!! Take the challenge up! :o) They're already halfway there, anyway, no one disagrees that processed food, white flour, and sugar are death-in-a-box - so our collective continued success and continuing research will eventually validate us... Take care, Lisa