Some information about the Atkins diet - please note that this is the Adkins website - but may as well share:
The Atkins diet, officially called the Atkins Nutritional Approach, is a low-carbohydrate diet created by Robert Atkins from a research paper he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association published by Gordon Azar and Walter Lyons Bloom. Atkins stated that he used the study to resolve his own overweight condition. He later popularized it in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his second book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, he modified parts of the diet but did not alter the original concepts.
1984 expanded and renamed his private practice to The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine.
1985 received the National Health Federation Man of the Year Award.
1987 co-founded the Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine.
1989 established Complementary Formulations, Inc., a mail-order distributor of food and vitamin products, renamed in 1998 to Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
1990 received the World Organization of Alternative Medicine Recognition of Achievement Award.
1998 published Dr. Atkins Vita-Nutrient Solution: Natures Answer to Drugs.
1999 established the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation.
1999 named one of People magazines 25 Most-Intriguing People.
1999 featured in Time magazine cover story on controlled carbohydrate nutrition.
2001 received Doctor of Humane Letters from Fairleigh Dickinson University for lifetime achievement in integrating alternative and conventional therapies.
2002 is chosen as one of the People Who Mattered 2002 in Time magazine.
2003 released Atkins for Life, designed to help people who didnt necessarily want to lose weight, to live a healthy lifestyle.
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the Adkins website
