The Atkins diet is a low-carb diet developed in the 1970s by cardiologist Dr. Robert Atkins. The diet became popular in the ...

Fad diets come and go, but The Atkins Diet-- a high-protein ... but day after day of only meat and fat at every meal can get tiresome," says Anderson. So therein lies the controversy.

Bowel cancer is more likely to develop when people eat a lot of animal fat and there is slow-moving transit of food through the gut. 'The Atkins diet results in both these things happening.