Die, Fad Diet, Die!

Atkins Nutritionals Incorporated has gone bankrupt.

NEW YORK — Atkins Nutritionals Inc, the company behind the Atkins Diet, filed for bankruptcy as U.S. consumers have tired of the once-sizzling fad.

Atkins Nutritionals, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday in New York bankruptcy court, said there was still a bright future for the company in weight loss. It plans to pare back its operations to focus on selling nutrition bars and shakes.

Based on research done by weight-loss guru Dr. Robert Atkins, the Atkins diet promotes eating proteins like meat and cheese while excluding carbohydrates such as bread and pasta.

Atkins and other low-carb regimens such as the South Beach and Zone diets were so popular from 2002 through 2004 that the trend was blamed for the demise of many eateries and the bankruptcies of several public pasta and baked goods manufacturers.

At the same time, however, the diet received widespread criticism from nutritionists who said it encouraged people to over-eat fatty foods like bacon.

I'm sorry, but if any of you can count yourselves among the mouth-breathing miscreants who actually bought into this garbage, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Giving up grain and eating nothing but meat and cheese? Give me a friggin' break.

I got sick of seeing this low carb nonsense on every other commercial last year, and I'm glad that it's finally gone. For crying out glaven.