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Really? Americans have never been fat or unhealthy before now? By "only now" do you mean now that everything is made with white flour and refined sugars?
What I mean is that people have always eaten complex carbohydrates and only now are people saying they're bad for you.
What I'm attempting to say (and doing it quite badly) is that it seems that the Atkins diet has discovered a correlation between the consumption of carbohydrates and obesity and in order to correct the problem, the Atkins diet reccommends cutting them out of your diet. I would say that there is a correlation between eating carbohydrates while remaining inactive and that the more natural way to resolve the issue is to not eat the full portions provided today and get out and be more active. I think it may be a potentially bad mistake to cut out a lot of the important fruits and veggies because of the fear of carbs and replace them in a diet that advocates eating a lot of fatty foods and red meats.
Of course, all of my information is based on the "good for you today, bad for you tomorrow" health-issue media. Coffee used to be bad for you, then for a short time it was good, now bad again. A correlation between the consumption of red meats and colon cancer was found, high protein to kidney damage, etc, etc.
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