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Robert Atkins published Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution (possibly the ancestor of all the modern low-carb diets) in 1972 and credited a 1958 article in The Journal
by jackfoxy 11y ago
Robert Atkins published Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution (possibly the ancestor of all the modern low-carb diets) in 1972 and credited a 1958 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association by Alfred W. Pennington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_diet So I don't think one lone researcher figured this out in 1972.
- hcs 11y agoThe article agrees that this is the case: the dangers of sugar used to be orthodoxy, but around the '70s is when sugar was de-emphasized in favor of fat to such a degree that low-carb proponents were labelled cranks. > When, in 1957, John Yudkin first floated his hypothesis that sugar was a hazard to public health, it was taken seriously, as was its proponent. By the time Yudkin retired, 14 years later, both theory and author had been marginalised and derided.