1930-
Cardiologist and Diet Doctor

Eggs and Sausage.

Dr. Robert C. Atkins graduated from Cornell University Medical School (1955) and is the founder and executive director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City. Every morning for breakfast he enjoyed a plate full of scrambled eggs and sausage. Contrary to prevailing medical opinion, Atkins insisted that it was just what the doctor ordered. Controversial though Atkins's ideas were about diet and nutrition, they were also wildly popular. Atkins first came to prominence during the 1970s when he published Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution: The High Calorie Way to Stay Thin Forever (1972), which, nearly twenty-five years later, remained one of the fifty best-selling books of all time. (It has sold in excess of 10 million copies.) In the 1990s, after a decade of low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet plans left 55 percent of Americans, and 25 percent of children, overweight...