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World famous diet doctor Robert Atkins, advocate of a popular but controversial high protein, low carbohydrate diet, died Thursday, nine days after falling and hitting his head on an icy sidewalk, his spokesman said.
Doctors surgically removed a blood clot from Atkins’ brain, but he went into a coma and died from complications.
Atkins developed the Atkins Diet–now referred to as the Atkins Nutritional Approach–that blames carbohydrates, a major energy source, for weight gain.
