Fad diets come and go, but The Atkins Diet-- a high-protein, low-carbohydrate weight-loss plan --seems never to go away, no matter how many medical professionals denounce it. "Low-carb diets have ...

Jump to: The Atkins diet is a weight loss plan developed in the 1960s by an American cardiologist, Dr Robert Atkins. It is a low-carbohydrate eating plan that gained popularity because it allows ...

Atkins, the crux of the original food plan was restricting ... could lead to weight loss, which Atkins put to the test on his own body. Finding it did indeed, he created the low-carb diet of ...