Dr. Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough: How to Treat Your Medical Condition Without Drugs

by Robert C. Atkins

Detailing a nutritional system for treating common physical and emotional illnesses without drugs, Atkins emphasizes the control of blood sugar levels with vitamin and mineral supplements to treat specific health disorders

367 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 1981

About the author

Robert Coleman Atkins, MD was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional Approach (or "Atkins Diet"), a popular but controversial way of dieting that entails eating low-carbohydrate and high-protein foods, in addition to leaf vegetables and dietary supplements.