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Trends come and go all the time in the food business. Remember tubular snacks, soy meat alternatives and fat-free potato chips? These product categories are all still around, but for each its luster as a hot-growth segment has passed. Category growth has leveled off, or in some cases receded, and weaker competitors have been eliminated In the food industry's Incarnation of Darwinian theory.
The same will eventually occur with the mania over low-carb dieting. Unknown, however, is how significant the fallout will be and when it's likely to occur.
Skeptics who recall the still controversial diet crafted by Dr. Robert Atkins in 1972 are quick to remind us that…