Of course the Atkins diet isn't the only diet to have received mixed reviews.
Jobs' diet is only the latest example of a high-profile technologist using mind to master matter.
Although nobody is suggesting that diet is the only factor that determines whether someone will behave badly in prison, it is increasingly clear that a poor diet can make behaviour worse.
But fat is also a fundamental, necessary component of the human diet, and only one piece of the complex dietary puzzle.
FORBES: Taxes On 'Fatty Foods', And Their Unintended Consequences
My only diet challenge was to take the time to eat sensibly.
In 1996 he converted the centers into clinics for doctors to prescribe fen-phen diet drugs, only to run into the little problem that these drugs can cause fatal heart problems.
In short, bariatric surgery involves so many risks that it should be used only as a last resort after diet and exercise have failed and then only with patients at high risk of mortality (from heart disease or diabetes, for example) because of their weight.
But there was certainly a semi-dangerous period in life where my body's entire liquid intake consisted only of Diet Coke.
In comparison, Diet Pepsi accounts for only 3%.
FORBES: Take The Pepsi Challenge But Don't Expect Much From The Stock
Although one man of Finnish descent, Marutei Tsurunen, now sits in the Diet as a citizen, only about 100 westerners are naturalised each year.
ECONOMIST: Social conventions and demography add to the sclerosis
On 2 June he won a no confidence vote in the Diet (parliament), only by making a promise to step down at a future date.
BBC: Japan PM Naoto Kan announces resignation amid criticism
Following a heart-healthy diet also means drinking alcohol only in moderation no more than two drinks a day for men, and one a day for women.
Now limas are not only a staple of my diet but often, the star of a meal.
In another example, Google's fun fact asked what the sweetener was in Diet Coke, but its answer provided only a short history of the beverage from Wikipedia.
The only part of the Mediterranean Diet that sounds encouraging is the part where the scientists urge us to drink seven glasses of wine a week.
Two years later those who ate the Mediterranean diet had half the risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death compared with those who stayed on the regular low-fat diet, even though their cholesterol declined only a modest 14%.
The introduction of cultivated cereals and vegetables, along with dairy produce, resulted in a poorer diet and a consequent decline in human stature, only reversed (at least in developed countries) in the last century.
She had tried alternatives such as the Atkins diet and not eating, but Weight Watchers was the only approach that worked.
Mike and Matt were on a liquid diet for two weeks after surgery, and then ate only soft foods for another two weeks.
Diabetes UK which funded the research said such a drastic diet was not "an easy fix" and should only be undertaken with medical supervision.
Making some fairly radical changes in your diet can reduce bad cholesterol by up to 30% in only four weeks, a recent University of Toronto study found.
There is only limited evidence that taxes would help reduce obesity, the group said, adding that only 7% of the calories in the American diet come from sugar-sweetened beverages.
So, admittedly with only a small group, he tested this starvation diet. 7 of the 11 (an appropriate number given the way in which junk food is thought to be a major cause of type-2 diabetes really) were free of diabetes three months later.
FORBES: The Cure for Diabetes and Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Epidemiologist Barbara Howard says women were told only to reduce the overall amount of fat in their diet.
In the Diet session that ended on Wednesday he managed to win approval for only one-and-a-half of the four big initiatives he hoped to pass.
ECONOMIST: The deficit may be the least of the prime minister's worries
They have shown that high exposure to BPA in the diet does not lead to measureable internal exposure to active BPA and only to very small amounts of inactive BPA in some people.
The poll found that only one in a hundred of those actually using the Atkins diet were convinced by such warnings.
In a study with only 20 participants, he found that those who consumed a diet drink called Celsius, which debuted in 2005, burned more calories than when they drank diet cola.
"I was not conscious about diet before but now I have got an idea to eat a useful amount only, " he said.
应用推荐