Snopes.com Finds The Death of Robert C. Atkins "Pleasing"

From Snopes.com:

It is thus pleasing to envision the doctor who led so many to a permissive diet regimen as having been felled by the very health advice he touted to millions (and which made him millions in return).

Despicable.

Comments

[Kevin "fun" Murphy]

I'm sure they rejoiced when Jim Fixx dropped dead of his heart attack while jogging.

[Kevin "fun" Murphy]

On further reflection, my daughter who is as skinny as a rail (thankfully she only resembles me in non-physical ways like her sense of humor) has heart disease and is under the care of a cardiologist. She has (had we hope) congenital heart disease and at the age of three months suffered from congestive heart failure and hypertension. Can't blame it on Atkins, must have been all that breast milk.

My father, who is overweight and over 70, suffers from congestive heart failure every time he has an operation and they pump him full of fluid afterwards -- standard hospital policy, can't be helped so they tell us. I think they've figured out after a couple of such incidents to give him a shot of lacix and to stop filling him up with saline when it starts. I wonder -- they put over sixty pounds of saline in Dr. Atkins -- would that have put him in congestive heart failure like it does my father with much less?

Perhaps Mrs. Atkins ought to sue for malpractice if he really did have heart failure in the hospital.

[Tom McMahon]

My Dad had a heart murmur ever since he was a kid. When he went thru the Army physical in 1943, the one doctor listened to his heart for a long, long, time and then called all the other docs over, just to give them a chance to hear a heart murmur for themselves. Then they sent him along his way with the rest of the troops into the Army. Times being what they were, they weren't very picky at that moment.

[Kevin "fun" Murphy]

My daughter's heart murmur gets the same response - apparently its very distinctive. No run of the mill murmur for my daughter. So when she sees her cardiologist, all the medical personell get a listen. Although one time an Indian intern/resident was pretty blase - he allowed he'd heard plenty of murmurs in India.