Atkins Nutritionals, the company that cashed in on the low-carb Atkins Diet, is up for sale and "could fetch more than $1 billion." Its anti-sugar precepts have become mainstream in America. The lone holdout: one rich motherfucker.

Atkins Nutritionals, the late Dr. Robert Atkins' company, which manufactures all those scrumptiously delicious low-carb breakfast bars and shakes and faux-candy and all that, filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday.