When I was young my father told me that i should be careful about what companies promote themselves as.
There was a car company that made it a point to advertise their quality.
The same company had a joke told about it that the acronym for its name spelled "fix or repair daily".
Many will say that every joke has a bit of truth in it.
So when a diet is the first one to tell you that they are not low carb it should make you wonder.
After all why is it necessary to tell us what a diet is not.
It is probably because we have all failed at diets many times over and the promoters of the diet do not want to be thrown in with the trash bin of diets we have burned through such as Atkins and othe low carb diets.
The reality is that phase on of the South Beach Diet looks a lot like the Atkins induction phase.
Where it starts to differ is in phase two with the concept of good carbs and bad carbs.
This is actually a concept that I could totally embrace considering that to me refined sugar is something that should be eliminated from everyone's diet.
The other way that South Beach Diet is similar to other low carb diets is that as the diet progresses more carbohydrates are allowed to be eaten.
This is another point that to me makes a lot of sense because as time goes on keeping to a high protein and low carbohydrate regimen can become very hard to maintain.