Atkins Becomes Popular, Red Meat Sales Boosted
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The Atkins diet, invented in the 1970s by the late Robert C Atkins, a New York cardiologist, encourages people to cut down on carbohydrates and eat dairy products, meat and fish.
Last week the Meat and Livestock Commission revealed that total meat consumption in Britain was 4.3m tons last year, an increase of 10% since the height of the BSE crisis in 1996. Sales of red meat, including bacon, a staple of the Atkins diet, were up 11% over the same period.
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