Possibly if you stick to less than 10% saturated fat but most people when on Atkins take the oppertunity to consume foods mainly high in saturated fat. They also risk restriction of important nutrients like calcium, fibre and folate. .
Generally if people do their research and eat wholefoods it is incredibly healthy. The amount of vegetables, especially leafy greens, that you eat is quite amazing. Also I wonder where you get restriction of calcium from, when you can eat products like cheese as well as nuts. Almond meal get used a lot. I never found fibre and issue, it was amazing how much better my bowels were. The basis behind Atkins is lowering carbs, the way to do that is to pick high fibre foods. For example if I was making a meatloaf I would use bran rather than breadcumbs. Whilst foods like butter are unlimited, it is hard to eat much of it, as without carby foods like bread or potato's, there is not much to eat butter with.

Like anything if people to do not read all the material and base their eating on hearsay, then they are going to get it wrong. These people annoy me as they are the ones giving low carb a very bad name. Also the media tends to focus on these people when they are looking for a sensational story. The ones who eat a 1/2 kilo of bacon at breakfast, believe me when meat it unlimited you get sick of of very quickly and go back to eating sensible portions without feeling hungry.



It depends what you mean by low fat. Low as in 30% of your daily intake then thats what is recommended. Anything less than that and your body will suffer.
I mean those people who mistook low fat as meaning they could eat as much as they liked of any food so long as the fat content was low or zero. Many still over ate and just increased their sugar levels instead. The amount of rubbish in many ready to eat low fat products it just scary and I struggle to see how that is seen to be healthier than a leafy green salad with meat, cheese and a good quality whole egg mayo like I would eat on Atkins.