Reply #94: Where are you getting the idea [View All]

[supernova]

that his diet was poor? Did you read his food diaries?

Also, from the information available (as I reported further up the thread) his cardiomyopathy stemmend from a

viral infection

several years ago, NOT his diet.

It seemed up until his fall, Dr Atkins was living quite well with his cardiomyopathy. Probably after the fall, his inability to get around and exercise -- as he maintained all along you should do-- contributed to the weight gain. Ditto excess water retention due to Congestive Heart Failure, again exacerbated by lack of exercise.

If you can say he had cadiomyopathy due to his diet, and only from the information given, then you are a better cardiologist than the entire cardiology staff of Johns Hopkins and Duke Medical Center combined.