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TIL when Robert Atkins published "Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution" in 1972, his diet was labelled a fad, which implies something new-fangled. But low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets had been popular for over a century before that & were a method of weight loss endorsed by mainstream science until the 1960s

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