Dr Robert Atkins - whose diet is followed by three million Britons - had a serious heart disease and was a clinically obese 18-and-a-half stone when he died, a report revealed yesterday.

Atkins, cardiologist and founder of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City, has advocated his high protein/low carb diet regimen for some 30 years (Dr. Atkins' Diet ...

For this reason, Dr. Clinthorne recommends ... are allowed on low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins diet, they can raise ...

Speaking at a heart specialists' conference in Vienna, Dr Mann admitted: "The majority of people lose weight on the Atkins diet and initially their cholesterol levels seem lower. "But when the ...