Are you trying to tell us that a diet of protein and vegetables and reasonable amounts of fats, will damage our brains? That being the very diet on which homo sapiens evolved our big brains? Your name must be as apocrophal as your knowledge. Just because we do not eat processed sugar, bread and potatoes, our brains are going to rot? I think you've been sitting alone in your room too long.

A fact is that most people on diets fail at maintence. Not Atkins or anyone one else can promise that once you reach your goal weigh you are going to have the character and will power to maintain it. Atkins does provide a rather effective system for slowly losing weight and then learning to maintain it. I can attest that the low fat/high carb diets are no more successful. In fact, in order for some of us to maintain weight on those diets, near starvation levels are required.

If you are fat and trying to lose weight, get on a plan that works, maintain your goal weight for five years and then come back and tell us how to do it. Until then, I think I shall get my diet information from more reliable sources.

Good Luck!