"The NPD Group, a market research company, examined the food-intake records of 11,000 people over three years and found that the 5% with the lowest intake of carbs consumed an average of 128 grams of net carbs (total minus fiber) a day"




This would be very interesting had they studied 11,000 ATKINS dieters!! This says nothing about these people following Atkins, it says the 5% with the lowest intake of carbs, not that ANY of these people were on Atkins. So you could take 11,000 people on ANY diet and say the lowest 5% were eating over the Atkins recommended limit.

It goes on to tell about the diet a little, but never actually says that any of those studied were on Atkins. Some people would consider 128 carbs a day LOW CARB, Weight Watchers followers especially. As a matter of fact, this article doesn't even say that the people studied were even dieters at all!!

I wish they would do real studies instead of attempting to mislead people with this stuff.