“Of course he made the mistake of following his own advice and died a very rich obese person with advanced heart disease and hypertension which is most likely why he dropped over dead.”
Not really. 6’ and 195 is hardly obese.
“Yet according to a copy of his medical records, as turned over to USA Today by the diet guru’s widow, Atkins weighed 195 pounds upon admission to the hospital 8 April 2003 following his fall. He died on 17 April 2003 after having been in a coma for more than a week.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-a-diet-doctor/
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Except that he is reported by multiple credible sources that Atkins actually weighed 258 pounds at the time of his death... Would it be advantageous for a multinational diet corporation to distribute multiple accounts shaving 60 pounds off it's founders weight at the time he died?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB107637899384525268 - behind paywall unfortunately
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4230348/ns/health-fitness/t/atkins-medical-recordsspark-diet-controversy/
Thank you for that additional info on Dr. Atkins. He was a friend professionally in late 1990s. One extremely interesting line of work he did is mentioned in one of his popular books— it was the use of high dose intravenous Vitamin C vs. certain cancers. Vitamin C being a powerful anti-oxidant (the most in nature) the mechanism was to combat the effect of free-radical oxidation of tissues (oxidation of LDL cholesterol is required before LDL will deposit or give up cholesterol to tissues for good or bad—and the anti-oxidant line of thinking has many supporters). He was able to put cancers of certain types in to remission from these large doses.
Highly controversial, high Vit C ingestion was advocated by Linus Pauling. This is often lumped together along with those who the Heart Association considers quacks who use EDTA in high dilution intravenously to “chelate” coronary disease lesions in the blood vessels. This chelation therapy is quackery imho.
Atkins was not obese, and he had genetic heart disease from low HDL.