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Article: Dr. Atkins, proponent of protein diet, dies
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2003
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NEW YORK -- Dr. Robert C. Atkins, whose best-selling low-
carbohydrate, high-protein diet was dismissed as nutritional folly
for years but was recently validated in some research, died Thursday,
his spokesman said. He was 72.
Atkins died at New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center, surrounded
by his wife and close friends, said Richard Rothstein, his spokesman.
Atkins had suffered a severe head injury April 8 after falling on
an icy sidewalk while walking to work.
Atkins first advocated his unorthodox weight-loss plan -- which
emphasizes meat, eggs and cheese and discourages bread, rice and
fruit -- in his 1972 book, "Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution."
Its publication came at a time when the medical ...