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Bloomberg: I Don't believe 'Fat' Atkins
NewsMax ^ | 1/21/04 | Limbacher

Posted on 01/21/2004 7:53:27 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

New York's Mayor Bloomberg, a dedicated foe of tobacco doesn't like fat either - and he thinks it was fat and not a head injury that killed diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins.

Chowing down at a New York firehouse, Bloomberg told firefighters "I don't believe that bull- s- - - - that [Atkins] dropped dead slipping on the sidewalk," Bloomberg said eating low fat bow-tie pasta, chicken and vegetables with FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and a group of Brooklyn firefighters according to the New York Post.

Atkins, whose high protein, low carb diet is the rage across America reportedly died after he suffered severe head injuries in a fall on an icy Manhattan sidewalk last April.

When a firefighter asked the mayor what Atkins looked like when he met him, the mayor replied that "He was fat," adding that he spat out the food he was served at Atkins' home into a napkin because "it was inedible."

Dr. Stuart Trager, a consultant for Atkins, told the Post "We're baffled and dismayed by the mayor's comments. Our hope is that this was just a joke gone bad."

The low-carb, high-protein Atkins diet sparked a revolution, the Post reported, with millions of followers shunning pasta and bread for steaks and sausages. Critics have claimed the high amounts of fat in many recommended foods can lead to high cholesterol and heart attacks.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: atkins; atkinscult; atkinsdiet; bloomberg; diet; doofus; highprotein; knockingadeadman; lowcarb; rino
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To: XBob
I am sure that the eskimos, finlanders, swedes, norwegians, laplanders, and the desert dwellers really grew up on those diets for thousands of years.

Think bell curve. There are always outlying areas, but the vast majority of humanity is from temperate zones.

61 posted on 01/22/2004 9:37:09 AM PST by Snerfling
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To: XBob
Now I'll have to have a hotdog next time I go to NYC. I'll send you my hospital bill! Seriously, the news went around asking people on the street why they ate the hotdogs still. Folks were saying that the vendors tend to be cleaner than most NYC delicatessens!
62 posted on 01/22/2004 11:03:33 AM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg
62 - "Now I'll have to have a hotdog next time I go to NYC. "

Ah,I didn't say that. I said when I was a kid, NYC had 'great' hotdogs. OH you kid!

Sorry, I haven't been to NYC for a few years, but last time I lived/worked there, the 'great' dogs, I didn't find.

However, I did just have an excellent local made Texas sausage for lunch. MMM MMM Good.

63 posted on 01/22/2004 11:49:56 AM PST by XBob
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To: XBob
I heard Texas has the best barbecue but I don't want to start a war of the barbecues on FR.
64 posted on 01/22/2004 11:53:38 AM PST by cyborg
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To: Snerfling
61 - "Think bell curve. There are always outlying areas, but the vast majority of humanity is from temperate zones."

The vast majority of Americans 'were' from England and Germany - Northern Europe.

No bananas and pineapples. Only fruits were (apples/pears) and vegies only in summer. Wheat basically only came with the Romans conquering N europe. Mostly meat eaters, cheese, milk, and preserved vegies like 'sauerkraut', dried apples, squash - pumpkins and I think Oats. Potatoes/tomatoes/corn came from new world.
65 posted on 01/22/2004 11:59:38 AM PST by XBob
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
You learn a lot about people by the fools they elect to lead them.
66 posted on 01/22/2004 12:04:31 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: cyborg
64 - "I heard Texas has the best barbecue but I don't want to start a war of the barbecues on FR."

Yes, we have regular wars here locally - who in Texas makes the best BBQ and the best Chili in the WORLD. There are BBQ and chili cookoffs regularly.

And thanks to a great influx of Germans into Texas in the late 1800's, we have some truly great local sausage (but this is not so well known).
67 posted on 01/22/2004 12:04:36 PM PST by XBob
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To: XBob
Will send Bloomberg there to fix your problem
68 posted on 01/22/2004 12:05:37 PM PST by cyborg
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To: Snerfling
61 - Oh, and BTW, the vast majority of the Northern Europeans are of Viking descent, from the middle ages.
69 posted on 01/22/2004 12:08:54 PM PST by XBob
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To: sinkspur
This is low-rent, to criticize a dead guy.

What you really mean is it's low rent to criticize a dead guy that you LIKE. I assume you have no problem with people citicizing Hitler (a dead guy), Idi Amin (also dead), or Stalin (strangely enough, yes, he's dead too).

70 posted on 01/22/2004 12:09:53 PM PST by BSunday (Error 409: Tagline Not Found)
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To: cyborg
68 - 'Will send Bloomberg there to fix your problem'

Oh, you wouln't, please, that's playing dirty pool -

not the stealth demonRAT. Oh no !!
71 posted on 01/22/2004 12:11:52 PM PST by XBob
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To: BSunday
What you really mean is it's low rent to criticize a dead guy that you LIKE. I assume you have no problem with people citicizing Hitler (a dead guy), Idi Amin (also dead), or Stalin (strangely enough, yes, he's dead too).

It's low rent to compare Robert Atkins to Hitler.

72 posted on 01/22/2004 12:13:33 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
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To: XBob
hehehehe as long as you're nice, I won't give him any ideas
73 posted on 01/22/2004 12:13:42 PM PST by cyborg
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To: sinkspur
(insert sound of spitting out soda here). OH please. I didn't compare anybody to Hitler.
74 posted on 01/22/2004 12:16:26 PM PST by BSunday (Error 409: Tagline Not Found)
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To: sinkspur
PS does that also mean you have no problem with me comparing Atkins to Stalin and Amin too, since both their names were in my post ????
75 posted on 01/22/2004 12:17:26 PM PST by BSunday (Error 409: Tagline Not Found)
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To: cyborg
73 - OK, I'll be good.

We had a couple of liberals here once, but we sent them back up to Yankeeland, father and son. I think they wound up in Washington DC.
76 posted on 01/22/2004 12:17:35 PM PST by XBob
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To: BSunday
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make.

Atkins didn't do anything to Bloomberg, or to you.

And Bloomberg has a hell of a nerve calling anybody ELSE "fat."

77 posted on 01/22/2004 12:18:50 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
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To: XBob
LOL - NY pretzels, pretty good, but Ah, for really great pretzels you need to go to Germany, and eat them with German mustard.

*whimper*

I lived in Germany for four years. I would KILL for some good authentic German food!

I liked the pretzel rolls even better than the pretzels - round rolls made out of prezel...stuff. I can't remember the proper term for 'em anymore. Mmmmmmm...

78 posted on 01/22/2004 12:19:57 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: sinkspur
Yo dude, calm down, okay? I didn's say that Atkins did anything to me. As a matter of fact, his theories interest me. I'm just careful not to jump on any bandwagons.

My point was this - you are a hypocrite. Why? Because you say it is "low rent" to criticize a dead guy, yet you probably do it all the time. That's why I mentioned Hilter, Stalin, etc.

79 posted on 01/22/2004 12:22:04 PM PST by BSunday (Error 409: Tagline Not Found)
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To: BSunday
My point was this - you are a hypocrite. Why? Because you say it is "low rent" to criticize a dead guy, yet you probably do it all the time. That's why I mentioned Hilter, Stalin, etc.

It's low rent to criticize a dead guy who's not a mass murderer.

I can have my opinions, you can have yours.

80 posted on 01/22/2004 12:24:07 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
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