Hi Dolphin blue--I just ignore all this negative garbage that is being put out on the news. They have been fighting Dr. Atkins on this diet for a long time but if you research--even the research done by Harvard University is finding that Dr. Atkins was correct. After I started Atkins WOE- my cholesterol and triglycerides became the best they had been in years. Both under 200-- and my blood pressure went from 220/ 117 to 128/78--so I think--Blah to all those gloom and doomers!! Good luck to you!! Alice