A cheese burger one day, lasagna the next and chicken nuggets instead of a bowl of noodles.Across the continent, a newly-affluent Asian middle class is splurging after centuries of deprivation, shaking off a diet traditionally high in vegetables and rice and low in meat and opting instead for food loaded with saturated fat.

Across the continent, a newly-affluent Asian middle class is splurging after centuries of deprivation, shaking off a diet traditionally high in vegetables and rice and low in meat and opting instead for food loaded with saturated fat. But the new variety of foods available to affluent Asians has a price -- diabetes.

I edited this sentence: Atkins graduated from the University of Michigan in 1951 and received a medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1955, after which he specialized in cardiology and herbal remedies in place of (or before) pharmaceutical drugs, but not limited to acne, cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, and depression. That last clause didn't really follow, grammatically. Matheson 12:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)Here's some pictures of him a couple months before he died - draw your own conclusions... http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2004/02/was_atkins_real.htmlMarj 19:47, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)I have a feeling that this article is a little biased -- it looks like the writer supported the Atkins Diet. However, I think that the Atkins diet is very unhealthy; studies have shown that the doctor-recommended normal food-pyramid way of eating (lots of carbs) is the most healthy over a span of thirty years. The studies that have tested Atkins have only gone for three years.I removed a number of POV comments and irrelevancies from the article. Wikipedia articles are not places for debate (but debate on the discussion pages is okay.) The South Beach diet is relevant to the Atkins diet (Agatston praises Atkins), but not to the biography of Atkins. Points for or against the Atkins diet belong in the article, Atkins Nutritional Approach. However, as to the comment above, the Atkins diet was based on research and clinical practice from long before "thirty years." There is actually very little, if any, scientific evidence regarding the healthiness of the "Food Pyramid," and, indeed, there is some evidence that, as Gary Taubes has put it, it was all a "big fat lie." Google "Taubes fat lie" to find his excellent articles (he's a science writer and was offended by the really bad science behind a great deal of nutritional conventional wisdom). User:Abd 20 June 2005."In the summer of 2005, Atkins was voted America's least beloved deceased star."... voted WHERE?