Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins
Robert Coleman Atkinswas an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the "Atkins Nutritional Approach", or "Atkins Diet", a popular but controversial way of eating that requires close control of carbohydrate consumption, emphasizing protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables. Although the success of Atkins' diet plan, weightloss books, and lifestyle company, Atkins Nutritionals, led Time to name the doctor one of the ten most influential people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 October 1930
CountryUnited States of America
Don't fix what's not broken.
It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.
Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.