I found the article you mentioned on Oprah's website:
http://www.oprah.com/health/omag/he...XMGFLLARAYHCFEQ
It is a well-written article but misleading in a lot of ways. For instance, in the first panel it says that any diet guru who poses as an unconventional genius is probably scamming, because "conventional wisdom is indeed wise." It is a good idea to be skeptical of off-the-wall claims. But assuming that conventional wisdom is true just because everyone believes it, well that's taking credulity a bit too far.
On the next panel they criticize plans that promotes weight loss through lowering insulin rather than controlling calories. I think that if there were nothing to weight loss except total calories, probably very few of us would need to be on this forum. Of course, calories consumed must be lower than calories expended. But there's obviously much more to it. It's kind of ironic that in another article on the website, Oprah completely undercuts this one, saying she dropped ten pounds not by counting calories, but by giving up high-glycemic refined carbohydrates.
Next they go after plans that are so extreme you can't stay on them for more than a short time ("a few weeks of eating only grapefruit or bacon"), and plans that promise quick results rather than a lifetime of better eating. Those are both bad things, but neither one of them describes Atkins.
So after reading that article, I think it was a pretty good argument against the horrible, unhealthy crash diet that people *think* Atkins is. But didn't have much to say about serious low-carb eating plans.
Just my two cents