Sure sounds like it beats the chain's low-fat offerings, such as the 6-inch turkey sub with no cheese, dressing or flavor. But it remains to be seen whether the wrap itself tastes like a carb-heavy tortilla or the front cover of a composition notebook.

Subway shill Jared Fogle has not released an official statement, but experts predict that he will he remain loyal to his six-inch sandwiches. He is also expected to offer his customary three inches when spending time with his wife.

The Atkins phenomenon intrigues me, because not only does it involve issues of health, but money. Big time money. A lot of people got very rich selling pasta, bread and rice, and a lot of people are making a mint on low-carb foods. Don't be surprised if the carbohydrate debate takes on a lot of qualities of a dirty political campaign, as the food industry battles for the hearts, minds and stomachs of the American consumer.

My own Atkins story goes like this:

• Stood 5-11 and weighed 203 on Sept. 17, 2003.

• Weighed in at 182 on Dec. 18, 2003. (For you Mets fans, the difference between 203 and 182 is 21. Also represents about one-third of your team's wins last year.)

• First two weeks were hell, only 20g carbs per day, no booze, head felt as light as Manny Ramirez's.

• Add 5g carbs per week, slowly introducing sauces that make any fish/meat dish taste great. Sometimes drank rum mixed with Diet Coke, the latter of which is supposed to be a no-no, but I showed no ill effects, except I'm not a liquor guy and the rum turned me into Ray Charles with a stuttering problem, so I switched to ... Miller Lite (3.2g) over the low-carb brands (Michelob Ultra, Accel; 2.6g) that taste like backwash left in a hobo's Old Milwaukee.

• Best homemade dish: Chicken cutlets either breaded with Keto crumbs, pan fried in oil and served with vodka sauce and mozzarella or unbreaded with Alfredo sauce and chopped bacon.

• Best restaurant dish: Surf & turf. Pay through the nose, but lose weight eating steak and lobster tail.

• Effects: Feel better, look better (except for the pants falling off my ass; post-holiday sales here we come), down three belt holes, never feel like the bloated floatation device that the combination of beer, rice, bread and pasta induces, get made fun of a lot by people who have never tried it, warned by my mother 1,000 times that I shouldn't do this too long, miss the guy who used to deliver Mexican food to my apartment three times a week. Looking forward to the upcoming low-carb Hershey chocolate bar.

Today's Web Finds:

• George W. Bush's Hotmail Account — Includes e-mails from all his buddies: Rumsfeld, God, even Osama. Looks like he's got a pretty good junk mail filter, too. Where's all his Viagra spam?

• Microsoft Office System Television Advertising — The genuinely funny "Great Moments" ads simultaneously poke fun at sports celebrations and the emotion employees invest in of making even more money for big corporations to whom they're just a tax number.

• Woman in the Ring — The New York Times Sunday magazine remembers Miss Elizabeth of WWF fame, as part of the publication's look back at noteworthy lives that ended in 2003.

• Imodium.com — Being a site designer for a product that plugs internal pipes can't be much fun, so imagine the thrill when the company came up with the "Where will you be when your diarrhea comes back?" campaign.

• Peter North's Movie Credits on IMDB.com — I saw this link yesterday on Fark.com. The long-time porn star has been a very busy boy, with 927 XXX film credits to his name. Hell, that's more than Pam Anderson. He even beats Ron Jeremy (758) with titles like Sodomania: Director's Cut Classics 2, Gluteus to the Maximus, The Adventures of Buck Naked, Sloppy Seconds and Ass Openers 18, which I am sure wasn't as good as the original. Since starring in 1992's The Last Good Sex, North has appeared in 533 films. That's a lot of bad lays, man.