Ocupation: Physician
Life: October 17, 1930 - April 17, 2003
Birthday: October 17
Death: April 17
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?
source: Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”
topic: Eye, Dark, Age, Carbohydrates, Blind Eyes, Refined