It's sort of a funny thing in low carb circles. Atkins followers - or those who have fashioned their plans by tweaking Atkins - remain the majority of adherents to this lifestyle, despite the surging popularity of Paleo-styled plans.
I admit to not knowing or caring a thing about Omega 6 vs. Omega 3 and all that jazz until sometime in 2009 after I'd found the LC web. Atkins was a big fish oil pusher (if memory serves he had his own line of supplements) and fan of the O3, but he certainly didn't spend much time addressing the dreaded O6 fats. The root of all evil in the minds of many.
I have his original book, and many recipes contained good old fashioned industrial mayo made from soybean oil or other veggie oil. There was no shunning of veggie oils that's for sure, or commercial salad dressings containing them so long as no carbs went along for the ride down the gullet. Chicken may not have been as highly touted as the more luxurious ribeye, but it certainly had its place. And when climbing the rungs, nuts were big. Macadamias preferred, but not because of the O6:O3 ration, but because they happen to be the lowest in carbs. I just threw out an expired Atkins shake I used to use sometimes in place of cream in my coffee (mocha coffee, yum!) - sunflower oil! Let's not go into fats in the various "product" around, although many of the newer moose turd look-alike offerings no longer contain these in the name of paleolithic purity.
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