I constantly deal with Atkin's Urban Legends from people that think they are informed. My stepmother kept going on about being in ketoacidosis, and since she is a "health care professional" my attempts to correct her were met with contempt. Same thing with the "Don't you just eat steak and bacon with Butter" etc etc.

The truth for me is that I have never consistantly eaten the amount of salad and vegetables that I eat now. I have always been a big meat eater, so the Atkins WOE really has not been a hardship to me.

I do wonder if the fear of fat, in most people's minds, is that it is very easy to equate fat on our bodies with fat in our meals. To the uniformed, that makes sense, since it is a (simplistic) logical connection.