| Most people think of the Atkins diet when
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| | time, and he received thousands of
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| they hear the phrase low-carb. Indeed,
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| | letters from readers thanking him and
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| Dr. Robert C. Atkins is the author of a
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| | telling him how his low carbohydrate diet
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| number of low carbohydrate ketogenic diet
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| | had changed their lives for the
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| books. The first one was published in
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| | better.The Johns Hopkins University and
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| 1972, and his pioneering efforts
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| | Mayo Clinic devised a diet to treat
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| revolutionized the dieting world we see
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| | epilepsy in the 1920s. The diet requires
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| today. For everything that you hear;
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| | high fat consumption and a low intake of
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| however, Dr. Atkins did not create
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| | carbohydrates in order to induce ketosis.
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| low-carb dieting.William Banting
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| | They studied how the diet worked with
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| published pamphlets in the 1860s
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| | children who were unsuccessful in
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| extolling the health benefits of the low
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| | treating their epilepsy with medication,
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| carbohydrate diet he was put on by his
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| | and they found that 55 percent of the
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| medical advisor, Mr. William Harvey,
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| | original patients remained on the diet
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| F.R.C.S. The basic tenet of his diet was
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| | and 27 percent had a greater than 90
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| to consume as little as possible bread,
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| | percent decrease in their seizures. There
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| butter, milk, sugar, beer, and potatoes
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| | were some children who had no seizures
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| due to his belief that these contained
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| | for two years while on the diet, and they
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| starch and saccharine matter, which
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| | appeared to be cured of the epilepsy even
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| tended to create fat. Mr. Banting found
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| | after stopping their low-carb ketogenic
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| that his indigestion disappeared, his
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| | diet.Walter Lyons Bloom and Gordon Azar
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| umbilical rupture was cured, he lost 50
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| | did a study in 1963 comparing
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| lbs, his sight and hearing were
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| | carbohydrate restrictive diets to fasting
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| surprising for a man in his 70s, he slept
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| | diets. They concluded that eating a diet
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| better at night, and he basically felt in
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| | adequate in calories, protein and fat,
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| better health than he had for the
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| | but deficient in carbohydrate, resulted
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| previous 26 years of his life. Mr.
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| | in weight loss similar to that of fasting
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| Banting revolutionized dieting in his
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| | patients.
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