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| Hamptons Diet | South Beach Diet | Atkins Diet |
| Wellness Approach to Weight Loss – invented by doctor who still focuses on health | Diet – no focus on health – from a doctor who is not a nutritionist | Diet – recognized as a fad diet |
| Low Carb and Mediterranean | Low Carb | Low Carb |
| Lean Proteins, Fish, Vegetables, Fruits, Whole Grains, Nuts | Focus on Healthy Fats – with no explanation of what they are nor any science to back it up. | Focus on Fats of any kind with emphasis on saturated fat |
| No Induction Phase – allows healthy carbs and fruits from Day 1 | Induction phase which is the same as Atkins | Induction Phase which can last indefinitely |
| Uses health as the platform | No emphasis on health or scientific research to back up his claims | Focus on weight loss |
| Encourages real, whole foods without substitutions | Allows many processed foods, including canola oil, low fat cheeses and milk, non-fat half and half, egg substitutes, liquid butter substitutes, equal – these are not health foods | Encourages consumption of overly processed low carb foods – substituting one bad behavior with another |
| No contradictions in 11 years of practicing nutritional medicine | Contradictions all over the book – don’t count calories, yet must count dessert calories; don’t use oj, yet it is in recipes | Contradictions from early atkins with the use of sugar alcohols and subtraction of all fiber |
| Recipes are delicious and filling | Recipes are very small portions with lots of unhealthful ingredients | Recipes are filled with processed low carb foods |
