The best advice I know how to give to anyone who even considers doing Atkins or any other diet is to READ THE BOOK!

If your cousin isn't eating vegetables and is concerned about internal organ damage, she obviously didn't read the book. If she's not serious enough to crack the book to learn WHY she's eating a certain way, she's setting herself up for failure, be it Atkins, Weight Watchers, Slimming World, or whatever.

This isn't like getting a new VCR, where it doesn't matter whether we read the book to learn how to stop that darned blinking "12:00," this is our life and our health we're talking about.

It's amazing to me that the answers are covered right in the book, but so few take the time to read it. And it's not like it's a dull read. Dr. Atkins' writing style is comfortable and easy to read, and the information covering the problems that we've all lived through and their underlying causes is fascinating.

Tell her to READ THE BOOK and then think for herself!

Sorry, just had to vent. (The crazy man will now leave the room).

Jeff