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Dr Atkins and the Hubris of Medical Establishment

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Eswar Krishnan, MD
Jun 23, 2025
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Remember the Atkins diet? For many, it conjures images of endless bacon, butter, and a strict ban on anything that even looked like a carb. It was the diet that famously told you to "eat the hamburger and throw away the bun," a mantra that simultaneously thrilled and horrified. For decades, Dr. Robert Atkins, the cardiologist behind this revolutionary (…

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