That doesn’t stop a lot of people from trying, nor does it look like it will slow the multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. I remember reading about the death of Robert Atkins, the physician who popularized the low-carb, high-fat, and high-protein diet bearing his name. He did not live particularly long, dying at age seventy-two after slipping on some ice in New York City and hitting his head. A running, dark joke in my lab was that while the Atkins diet did great things for your heart, it caused people to slip on ice. In fact, at least in Atkins’ own case, it wasn’t so great for his heart,
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