Dr. Atkins: Can't attack the scientific studies then attack the man

Report: Diet doctor Atkins was obese, suffered heart disease, medical examiner report says

For those of you who haven't read Dr. Atkins book and don't know about heart disease, the above headline just confirms your worst fears.

For those of you who don't read the news much, the headline may bring questions -- even if your own blood work shows much improvement.

For those of you who know that infection can and does cause heart disease (my cousin, at just over 40, has this condition because of a viral infection and he can no longer be a pilot because of it) and who know that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, who leaked the report, is not responsible, the headline is one shot in the battle over nutrition, and the stakes are very high.

The original medical examiner's report was given to the Wall Street Journal, and while I am a subscriber, I haven't "fisked" their nutrition articles because they don't appear online (although at the bottom of this post, I do talk about it.) What I am surprised about is that the Wall Street Journal doesn't describe how being in a coma causes fluid retention until the sixth paragraph and doesn't mention at all how the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine shares staffers and space with Peta.

Dr. Atkins' wife has responded on the website.

Question. If the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is so anti low carb, why don't they just let the medical studies being done confirm their worst fears instead of using this tactic? Why? I suspect it is because each of the medical studies have confirmed Dr. Atkins methods and so they have to go after the man before this gets too far.

It won't work.

It might have worked 25 years ago before the advent of the Internet, before Americans had a chance to be "a pack and not a herd" in terms of the media outlets, before it was OK to question prevailing wisdom and doctors were God in terms of knowledge. Those days are over. And real scientists want to know the truth... and the people will demand the truth with rigorous studies. This is what we owe Dr. Atkins.

For more on this topic, read my post Atkins and the Aliens that cause Global Warming.

Comments

[BobtheKnob]

Atkins was an out of shape fatbody! He bloated himself up on bacon, cheese and other low carb foods. The fat on his body is probably what caused him to fall in the first place!!!!

More evidence that low carb is nonsense!!!!

[Watcher]

Bob... Atkins went into the hospital weighing only 195 pounds. Get your facts straight before running down the street screaming like an idiot.