The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins 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.The Atkins franchise, a business formed to provide products to those individuals on the diet, has been highly successful due to the popularity of the diet, and is considered the iconic and driving entity of the larger "low-carb craze". However, various factors have led to its dwindling success and the company founded by Dr. Atkins in 1989, Atkins Nutritionals of Ronkonkoma, New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July of 2005, two years after the death of Dr. Atkins. The company re-emerged in January 2006, and the Atkins logo is still highly visible through licensed-proprietary branding for food products and related merchandise.

The Atkins Diet is probably the diet that I hated the most. I had no energy. The primary concept behind the Atkins diet it to limit the amount of carbohydrates that you consume. Carbohydrates are what your body burns to generate energy. When you cut down on these your body has to resort to burning stored energy-- fat.

The Atkins diet started a revolution in the way that people looked at carbohydrates and the way that they went on diets. There are many diets in the world that advocate having a slim body but very few people have been able to achieve the weight that they wanted.

Everybody has heard about Dr. Robert C. Atkins and his famous dietary plan that was originally developed in 1972 and described in his groundbreaking book “Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution”. Since then, and despite the fact that the orthodox medicine has treated Dr. Atkins’ dietary approach extremely negatively, over 10 million

A modified version of the ‘Atkins" diet, with high-protein and low-carbohydrate, can effectively diminish epileptic seizures in adults, when drugs and other treatments fail, says a new study.

A modified version of a popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet can significantly cut the number of seizures in adults with epilepsy, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The Atkins-like diet, which has shown promise for seizure control in children, may offer a new lifeline for patients when drugs and other treatments fail...