[Johnnyzen]

A friend of mine met Atkins. He not only advocated high volumes of meat, but dairy as well. To compare Macrobiotics with Atkins is a far stretch of the imagination. Dairy products are for baby cows. No Macrobiotic counsellor will advocate their use, except on very rare occasions. Even on a maitenance Atkins diet, grains are not teh staple. they could never compose half of the meal, as they do in Macrobiotics.

It is seldom said that most fail on this diet. there is no need to go on it for anyreason. It is a diet designed to suit teh high fat-meat-dairy choices of Americans. MAcrobiots is a lifestyle, a balance. You cannot be vegan or vegetarian and be on the Atkins diet. I know many that got sick on it, and with the Mad Cow think finally hitting America, I would advise people to stick with plant proteins anyway.