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Originally published February 2 2004

Subway leads the fast food restaurant pack with low-carb menu items based on Atkins diet

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Here's a humorous look at one man's attempt to follow the Atkins diet while eating at fast food restaurants. It's an experience most of us can probably relate to. We want to eat low-carb meals fast, so in desperation and out of some bizarre, twisted logic we suddenly decide that fast food joints are the answer! Once there, however, we soon learn that fast food restaurants really aren't doing a very good job of offering low-carbohydrate menu items.

But the situation is improving. Subway jumped on the low-carb trend by striking an early deal with the Atkins diet group. Now they offer "Atkins-friendly" menu items. Burger King has a bunless whopper, as does Carl's Jr. But McDonalds? It doesn't even pretend to be healthy, as this journalist so clearly states. McDonalds is best known these days for the 30-day McDonalds diet rather than any low-carb menu items.



Your diet has made my life a living carbohydrate-free hell. Bacon and eggs, followed the next day by more bacon and eggs (maybe scrambled this time) and then, for variety, sausages and eggs. Had I the time and inclination, I could sit down with a tasty filet, a small side salad with Bleu cheese dressing and maybe some baby asparagus spears dressed in a butter sauce with my glass of Evian. The sandwich chain, famous for Jared and its low-cal subs, has struck a deal with the late diet doc's estate to use the familiar name for its Turkey & Bacon Melt and its Chicken Bacon Ranch wraps.


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