When I started it I found a huge increase in energy levels that helped motivate me to work out more. I also found I began to crave vegetables. Fiber is encouraged with Atkins as it has some kind of effect of reducing the sugars absorbed. Overall I really don't eat more protein. I get full more easily from protein and fiber meals. Rather than feeling hungry a few hours after eating previously.

Now I maintain this diet because cutting out sugars has improved overall concentration and depression. I used to think I had some kind of depression problem, turned out to be what I was eating.

hrieke wrote:
The Statiz (sp? E. German Secret Police) did something like this once.

Hmm...perhaps you are thinking along the lines of Staats Polizei? State Police would be a fair translation for that phrase. In this case State referring to the national government rather than a State such as New York. The Nazi's Gestapo was such a police force. The word Gestapo being a German acronym coming from the phrase Geheime Staats Polizei or Homeland State Police. Hmm...Homeland Security Office...no I don't like where we are going at all.

More on topic though...this scent sniffer is probably feasible. It may sound silly now, but the idea is not really that screwy, if you consider what most people thought of the idea of human flight 'round about 1890 or so. We know dogs can identify individual people by scent, so it's not as if the idea is just some screwball notion. At first, the equipment might be bulky and expensive, but that is almost always true of any new technology. The idea is far from useless though as some here have mentioned. The only ray of hope I see as far as this not being realized is the measly 3.2 million dollar appropriation. I would worry far more about it if they were willing to put some real capital into the research. Of course, this is just a call for some initial proposals. They may be willing to go whole hog if some of the proposals end up looking promising.