News reports and the increasing number of food-industry organizations that are now attacking the low-carb movement don't faze [Iris Shaffer]. "The media is about conflict and controversy, so of course there will be" stories about those opposing low-carb dieting, she says. And she readily admits the proliferation of low-carb products isn't helping. "There are bad products out there," she admits. "It goes for low-carb; it goes for everything.