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Best-Selling Diet Doctor Atkins Dies at 72.

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| April 18, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 18--Dr. Robert C. Atkins, the best-selling weight loss guru whose unorthodox ideas motivated millions and challenged dietary gospel, had at last been enjoying some support from the medical community.

Though his pro-cheeseburger/anti-bun approach once was considered bizarre and potentially dangerous, some recent studies had begun to validate the controversial principles he advocated.

Atkins, 72, died Thursday in New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center.

He suffered a severe head injury April 8 in a fall on an icy sidewalk. He had undergone surgery to remove a blood clot from…

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