You are right about the trends, but consider this. The diet became extremely popular in the early 2000's, but among the "fad diet" mainstream population. That

You are right about the trends, but consider this. The diet became extremely popular in the early 2000's, but among the "fad diet" mainstream population. That peak was unnatural, and most of these dieters will fail at whatever the new diet is because they have unrealistic expectations and don't really follow a disciplined program. The diet is becoming more popular from a group that has a more scientific approach now. Also when they diet began to decline there ALREADY WAS a huge push from certain groups to discredit the diet. When Dr. Atkins died he was fat, but this is anecdotal, what is crazy is that his autopsy was released illegally without the families permission.