Ryvita, cottage cheese and aerobics twice a week – I lost 5lb following a 1980s diet It was the era of Jane Fonda and the Hip and Thigh diet, but that wasn’t the only reason everyone was so ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 29, 2025, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: John Robbins, Author of Groundbreaking Diet Book, Is Dead at 77.

The man behind the controversial Atkins diet may not have known the true secrets of its success. Dr Robert Atkins said his diet, which he invented in 1992, worked because of the way the body burns ...