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Bakeries Lose Business As Dieters Go Low-Carb

By AAN Staff
april 21, 2004  06:53 pm
Sales are down not just because of the 10 million Americans who are on a low-carbohydrate regime like the Atkins diet. Perhaps more influential, writes Lissa Harris for Boston's Weekly Dig, "is the general protein-good, carbs-bad theology of the Atkins diet that is gradually pervading conventional wisdom." The food industry's response has been a little schizophrenic, she observes, with bakers developing more low-carb goodies at the same time they are trying to restore carbohydrates' good name to the public.
View full article at Boston's Weekly Dig