births
October 17, 1930
Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)
Robert Atkins (physician)
Robert Coleman Atkins was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.
Atkins diet
The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate fad diet devised by Robert Atkins in the 1970s, marketed with claims that carbohydrate restriction is crucial to weight loss and that the diet offered "a high calorie way to stay thin forever".
October 17
October 17 is the 290th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 75 days remain until the end of the year.