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Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, first published in 1972 [1]. The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate fad diet devised by Robert Atkins in the 1970s, marketed with claims that carbohydrate restriction is crucial to weight loss and that the diet offered "a high calorie way to stay thin forever".
Atkins diet: A low-carbohydrate diet, popularized by nutritionist Robert Atkins in the late-20th and early-21st centuries. [27] Proponents argue that this approach is a more successful way of losing weight than low-calorie diets; [ 28 ] critics argue that a low-carb approach poses increased health risks. [ 29 ]
Robert Coleman Atkins (October 17, 1930 – April 17, 2003) was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.
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In 1992, 1995, and 2003, the Atkins diet, Zone diet and South Beach Diets appear successively. [5] [13] [6] The Atkins diet has been described as "one of the most popular fad diets in the United States". [59] In 1997, the American Heart Association (AHA) "declares war on fad diets [...] to inform the public of misleading weight loss claims ...
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He coined the term "Plant-based diet" to help present his research on diet at the National Institutes of Health in 1980. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is the author of over 300 research papers, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and four books The China Study (2005), which was co-authored with his son, Thomas M. Campbell II, and became one of America's best-selling books about ...