Are people finally wising up?

Some fun facts from Melanie Warner's NY Times article, Is the Low-Carb Boom Over?:

• Some 3,737 products, including new flavors and varieties of existing foods, were introduced with low-carb marketing in the last two years alone, according to ProductScan Online, a service that tracks new products.


• According to ACNielsen LabelTrends, total sales for products marketed as low-carb grew 6 percent for the 13 weeks that ended Sept. 25, versus double-digit and triple-digit gains in such periods late in 2003 and in the first half of this year.


• According to the NPD Group, a research firm, the percentage of Americans who followed low-carb diets like Atkins, South Beach or the Zone fell to 4.6 percent in September from 9 percent in January. Over the same period, the number of products in the low-carb category doubled.