Bumped his head and he went to bed and he didn't get up in the morning...

[Frances Morey]

Dear Loved Ones,
Atkins practiced what he preached, I fear. Don't pay any attention to his fradulent fad diet of eating all the fat and protein you want.
You do lose weight because that regimin doesn't support life, but you also lose organ function, have arterials clog up, and way too early
develop arthritis and diabetes. 
In the long haul the lost weight comes back--I wouldn't gaurantee as much for the systems stressed by this nutritional assualt--the joints, organs and the arteries, all pretty central to health.
Celebrate pasta, bread, and any dessert that conforms to the American
Heart Assn. guidline of no more than 30% calories coming from fat. If you read my book you already know how to figure that using the information right there on the nutritional package label.       
It's not often I get to crow, tol' ya' so, but when it is this appropo I can not resist a cockle doodle do or two.
Bon ap-petite,
Frances Morey

Updated: 11:22 AM EST
Report Says Diet Doctor Atkins Was Obese
At 258 Pounds, 6-Foot-Tall Diet Guru Qualified as Obese

   
 
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Dr. Robert Atkins died last April at age 72.  
   
NEW YORK (Feb. 10) - Dr. Robert Atkins, whose popular diet stresses protein-rich meat and cheese over carbohydrates, weighed 258 pounds at his death and had a history of heart disease, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Atkins died last April at age 72 after being injured in a fall on an icy street.

Before his death, he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report by the city medical examiner.

At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have qualified as obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's body-mass index calculator.

   
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Diet is one potential factor in heart disease, but infections also can contribute to it.

Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council in New York, told the Journal that Atkins' heart disease stemmed from cardiomyopathy, a condition thought to result from a viral infection.

Atkins' weight was due to bloating associated with his condition, and he had been much slimmer during most of his life, Trager said.

The medical examiner's report was given to the Journal by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that advocates vegetarianism. The medical examiner's office told the Journal that the report had been sent to the group in error.

There was no immediate response Tuesday to a call seeking additional comment from the medical examiner's office.

The diet guru's widow, Veronica Atkins, was outraged that the report had been made public.

"I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health problems late in life were completely unrelated to his diet or any diet," she told the Journal.

Last month, Veronica Atkins demanded an apology from Mayor Michael Bloomberg after Bloomberg called her late husband "fat."

In April 2002, Atkins issued a statement saying he was recovering from cardiac arrest related to a heart infection he had suffered from "for a few years." He said it was "in no way related to diet."


02/10/04 09:15 EST
 


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