well personally I think thats the key. I think the whole concept of "diet" is half the problem, because a diet is something that typically is very restrictive, requires willpower, and is temporary. In other words, doesn't help a whole lot at all

Again I'm not trying to shoot down Atkins - I've seen the improvement that some of the Atkins principles can make, and I'm not even ON the diet yet. But I'm also already pretty healthy. There are scores of people with horrific diets out there, for those people, I think small gradual changes would be key