The following article came from the front page of the 19 JanSydney Morning Herald (www.smh.com.au) & was originally published in the New York Times. I won't include the SMH clicky as it would now be in Archives (it's tomorrow here, now!!) & Archived articles usually cost money.

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Fatty diet backs away from the heart attack on a plate                                                                                 
By Marian Burros in New York                                                   
January 19, 2004                                                      
After advising dieters for years to satisfy their hunger with liberal amounts
of steak, eggs and other saturated fats, the promoters of the Atkins diet now
say people should set limits on such foods.                           
Only 20 per cent of a dieter's calories should come from saturated fat, the   
director of research and education for Atkins Nutritionals, Colette Heimowitz,
is telling health professionals at seminars.                           
Scientists have criticised the Atkins low-carbohydrate, high-fat regimen,      
fearing it might lead to heart disease and other health problems.      
Ms Heimowitz said people had read the phrase "eat liberally" as a licence to   
gorge on red meat. "Not making a distinction between one kind of protein and   
another, that was a mistake, and that is why we had to write another book, to
get the story straight."                                                                                                            
The Atkins revision places more emphasis on fish and chicken. Company         
representatives say Dr Robert Atkins, who died last year, always maintained   
that people should eat food other than red meat, but had difficulty getting   
that message out. The revised version explains how to follow his diet, not the
diet itself.                                                                                             
The Atkins regimen                                                   
But Atkins publications have never set limits on saturated fat and it now      
faces competition from other popular low-carbohydrate diets that call for less
saturated fat.                                                            
The Atkins regimen remains high-fat, but it is lifting the amount that should
be unsaturated - the kind that comes from most vegetable oils and fish.      
   
However, Ms Heimowitz said: "Even in the old book it says, 'Eat until you are
satisfied but not stuffed.' "                                        ...........................