SOUTH BEACH: LOW-CARB? NEVER HEARD OF IT!

Further evidence of "low-carb" circling the drain: The creator of the South Beach Diet is going to great lengths to distance it from Atkins, saying it's not "low-carb" at all. (And more importantly, emphasizing that it's not "high-fat" like Atkins.) "The South Beach diet is no fad, its creator says, rejecting the notion that his eating plan would fizzle out with the rest of the low-carb craze. 'We are not low carb. We are good carb,' Dr. Arthur Agatston." And failing to "endorse the South Beach diet in its entirety," Marion Nestle adds, "It's pretty mainstream, but not totally. To tell people that they can't eat pasta or potatoes is just silly."