NEW YORK, Feb 01, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. (ANI) announced the appointment of a board of directors to govern the company as it implements a new business strategy focused on providing great-tasting portable foods with a unique nutrition advantage to healthy, active men and women.

A six-month-old stay on a high-profile lawsuit against Atkins Nutritionals was automatically lifted by the company’s emergence from bankruptcy protection yesterday. The suit, which alleges that the high-fat Atkins diet caused a near-fatal cardiac event in a Florida man, will now go forward in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Atkins Nutritionals Inc., the company that promoted low-carb eating into a national diet craze, filed for bankruptcy court protection Sunday, a company spokesman said.