Imagine a world where you can scarf down all the rich, fatty foods and actually lose weight. Stuff yourself with steak and eggs three times a day, greased with a stick of butter, and watch the pounds melt away. Welcome to the world of Dr. Robert Atkins, branded a heretic when he launched his diet revolution 30 years ago.

He defied slimming wisdom and the public health mantra, “fat bad, carbs fine,” and only now, after decades of the low-fat regime, and an epidemic of obesity, his question is being taken seriously. “Where’s the proof that fat makes you fat?”

Maybe the mad doctor was right all along. Some even go so far as to indict the government’s low-fat, high-carb dogma as the cause of all the flab....to read more and hear interview









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