U.S. dieters will soon be able to count their carbs on mobile phones, the company behind the Atkins Diet said on Thursday. Atkins, which is facing a slowdown in sales of its packaged foods and smaller ...

Planning on stuffing your face with too many cookies this holiday season? Atkins Nutritionals has teamed up with Digital Chocolate (oh the irony) to provide carb-counting software for mobile phones.

Both the ketogenic diet and the Atkins diet cut carbs and encourage weight loss, but that's about all they have in common. The ketogenic diet was created in the 1920s as a therapy for epilepsy, but ...

The Atkins diet has four phases: introduction, balancing, pre-maintenance and lifetime maintenance. The first phase is the strictest, requiring you to cut out almost all carbohydrates. The second and ...