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 Revolution ...

This press release is also available in German. A Rapid Review article by Arne Astrup and colleagues in this week's issue of THE LANCET discusses whether the popular Atkins diet really does produce ...

Read an excerpt from “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” by Robert C. Atkins, M.D. Preface This is an updated version of the book I wrote ten years ago to help as many people as I could to lose weight.

A lawsuit decided last month by a federal court in Manhattan rejected the claim of a fed-up dieter who blamed the diet he followed for causing him heart problems and who sued on claims including false ...

Dr. Robert C. Atkins, the weight-loss guru whose low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet was adopted by millions of people despite concern over its potential dangers, died Thursday. He was 72. Atkins died ...

In a head-to-head comparison between two popular and distinctly different eating plans, the Atkins diet trimmed significantly more pounds and body fat in obese but otherwise healthy women than a ...

In 1972, at the age of 10, I pleaded with my parents to get me the Dr. Atkins diet book so I could finally lose weight. I remember cutting out the bread, pasta and rice, as well as the sweet things ...

The low-carb, high-fat Atkins diet gets high marks in one of the biggest, longest head-to-head studies of popular weight-loss plans, beating the Zone, the Ornish diet and even U.S. guidelines. Even so ...

Nearly a year after his death, Dr. Robert Atkins still is the center of fervent controversy. On Feb. 10, the Wall Street Journal reported that Atkins' medical records stated that he weighed 258 pounds ...

advanced by her husband, the diet guru Robert C. Atkins, came under attack. Now a year after Dr. Atkins’s death, his widow’s annoyance has turned to resolve. She intends to use her husband’s fortune ...