Article: SCALING BACK ON CARBS? SUCH DIETS IGNORE HEALTHY, SUREFIRE WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT: BURN CALORIES.(Spotlight)

Byline: Lisa Ryckman, Rocky Mountain News

In the bizarro world of weight loss, carbs have cooties.

So since everybody else was doing it, I did it, too: the Atkins diet induction phase, two weeks spent inhaling as much bacon and butter as possible.

The results were stunning.

By the end of it, I had gained weight - three pounds of pure bacon and butter, to be exact - and would have traded my soul for a Cheerio.

On Atkins, of course, a Cheerio is a no-no, banished forever to the island of misfit carbs. It seems there are as many kinds of carbs as there are diets: good carbs, bad carbs, old carbs, new carbs, red carbs, blue carbs, ...

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