Good thing the Atkins diet doesn’t try to wean you off sex. Because it apparently didn’t work for the good doctor

WWW- Dr. Robert Atkins loved his bacon – and legs.

The late low-carb diet guru who convinced millions to spurn bread, rice and pasta apparently had a hard time passing up a pretty face.

According to a revealing new biography by Lisa Rogak titled “Dr. Robert Atkins: The True Story of the Man Behind the War on Carbohydrates,” Atkins was notorious for bedding his patients and nurses.

“Atkins had developed a reputation as being good in bed, and, inevitably, a number of women – who may or may not have benefited from his take on weight-loss – visited the office and became his patient solely to have sex with him,” Rogak wrote.

One unnamed woman now old enough to be receiving Social Security said she remembered how she stuck to the Atkins’ diet even though she secretly thought it was unhealthy.

“I could always lose the weight, that wasn’t the problem,” she shared. “I just wanted to jump his bones.”

He apparently was infamous among his friends for hiring pretty nurses at his practice.

“He liked women with nice-looking ankles,” recalled Bernard Raxlen, a physician colleague.

More than a few times, Atkins would romance a nurse for a couple weeks, then cast her aside for the next good-looking woman who walked into his office, Rogak wrote.

Atkins’ luck with the ladies went all the way back to his college days, when he always was dressed to the nines and loved to please a crowd with his Danny Kaye impressions, Rogak wrote.

“Boy, did he date,” recalled Larry Stein, a Dayton, Ohio, real-estate developer who was Atkins’ fraternity brother when they attended the University of Michigan in the 1950s.

“Though he never dated any one girl on a steady basis. . . . They were knockouts.”

His constant flirtations didn’t always go over well though. While doing postgraduate medical training in Boston, several nurses had to carefully orchestrate plans to avoid Atkins when making after-work plans.

“He flirted with all of us, waiting to see if he could talk one of us into going home with him for the night,” remembered former nurse Barbara Stinson.

As word of his diet spread, his fame grew and so did his prowess with women.

But his catting around apparently came to an end when he met his wife, Veronica Luckey, a classy divorcée who wouldn’t put up with his cheating ways, when he was 56.

“Veronica made it clear from the beginning that she would not put up with any philandering,” Rogak wrote.

They stayed married until Atkins died in April 2003 after slipping on an icy Manhattan sidewalk.

She was his staunchest defender when criticism arose after his death about the risks of his famous high-fat, high-protein diet.

“I want him to be remembered for his courage,” Veronica Atkins is quoted as saying.