The Atkins Diet book has sold 1.1million copies here since it was published in 1999. The updated paperback version, released in January, is selling 120,000 a month. The runaway success of the ...

which he published in his book Dr Atkins Diet Revolution in 1972 — the best-selling diet book ever, over 15 million and counting. So far, so last century, you may say. The diet, formally known ...