08/18/2003 - Updated 01:00 PM ET

The Atkins Diet: Stuart Trager, M.D.

Tuesday, August 19, 11 a.m. ET

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Was Dr. Atkins right after all? While the medical community remains cautious about Robert Atkins' fabled but controversial diet (swear off pasta, but eat all the steak you want), it seems like the entire USA is going low-carb crazy, reacting to a flurry of studies that grudgingly admit the late doctor may have been "on to something." From mushrooming low-carb-only stores to restaurants boasting carb-counts on their menus, the signs of a near-evangelical commitment to this lifestyle (don't call it a diet, say the faithful) run from coast to coast. If the healthy-eating mantra of the past few decades was "low fat," could the slogan of the coming years be "low carb"? Chat with Stuart Trager, M.D., about the Atkins Diet.

Stuart Trager, M.D., is an exercise and controlled-carbohydrate lifestyle consultant to Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.