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Who Was Atkins?
Posted by fitnessguru in Prescription Diet Drugs, Weight Loss on April 27th, 2009
We all know about his diet, the Atkins diet. It has proven to be a diet of controversy for many years, with many people swearing buying it and others linking it to cardiac illness, constipation, bad breath and much more. But just who was Atkins? In this article I shed a little light on the man behind the diet.
Dr Atkins graduated from the University of Michigan and in 1955 he received his medical degree with a specialty in cardiology from Cornell University Medical School. It wasn’t until the early 70s when the Atkins diet came to prominence with his first book “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution” being released in 1972. It has since been reprinted 28 times and has sold over 10 million copies.
The diet focuses on reducing the carbohydrate intake so that the body burns fat instead. Gone are foods such as pasta, bread, sugar and fruit, replaced with a focus on cheese, eggs and meat.
Despite seeing over 60,000 patients over his 30 years of practising, his diet always had critics who claimed a diet so high in fat for extremely dangerous and could lead to heart attacks. He suffered a cardiac arrest in 2002 and then fell on ice in 2003 and fell into a coma. Unfortunately, Dr Atkins never recovered and died in hospital from Kidney failure in April 2003.
Hopeful, that answers the question who was Atkins. The company he founded back in 1989 Atkins Nutritional still survives to this day. However due to a series of bad publicity and a fall in the popularity of the diet, the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2005. Around this time, however, the popularity of other low carb diets remained high.
The company came out of bankruptcy protection in 2006 with a slightly revamped programme which included nutritional bars and shakes and focuses just a little less on the low carb element and is now massively popular again.
So now you know, who was Atkins the man behind the revolutionary diet. A diet that has outlived him and shows continuing popularity over 35 years since it was introduced.
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