I was wondering that too. Are those people going to the grocery store and putting everything with the Atkins label on it into their grocery carts? Most of the low carb diets I've seen don't require special food--just meat, eggs, fish, and vegetables.

Not that I believe in conspiracies...but in the past four months I've see several articles, where an average citizen falls prey to the "low carb craze", tries it for a bit, then quits because it was ______________ (fill in the blank -- too restrictive, too expensive, conducive to binging, conducive to heart attacks, etc.) BUT THEN the average citizen finds Weight Watcher's, and all is well.

And it's always Weight Watcher's, never Nutrisystem or Jenny Craig. I wonder if they are bribing reporters to boost their sagging sales?