Atkins Diet & Low Carbohydrate
The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or
just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known of the
low-carbohydrate diets. It was adopted by Dr. Robert Atkins
(1930-2003) in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the
American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own
overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical
training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he
popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr.
Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New
Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained
faithful to the original concepts.
Official Site
http://www.atkins.com/
Atkins Diet
http://dmoz.org/Health/Nutrition/Dietary_Options/Low_Carbohydrate/Atkins_Diet/
at the Open Directory Project
Debate and Criticism of Atkins
http://www.skepticreport.com/medicalquackery/atkins.htm
http://www.atkinsexposed.org/
Diet Reviews
http://www.comparediets.org/diet-reviews/atkins.php
Other
http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.htm