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>>15380801
>Atkins died from slipping and falling. He never had any diet related health problems.
Hahahaha.

>>5879023

http://paleohacks.com/cholesterol

Now lurk around the paleohacks forum and gaze at their low-carb cholesterol levels. This is a forum where many people are dieting to lose weight, which is something that naturally helps to lower cholesterol, and they still commonly have LDL in the 150-200 range, some as high as 400mg/dl. The most depressing posts are those who list their cholesterol levels from when they ate a more normal diet, or even some who were on vegetarian/vegan diets with very low cholesterol, and then after switching to a fatty diet their cholesterol increased dramatically. Because this worsened cholesterol score is pretty much inevitable, they then resort to denialism and conspiracy theories to dismiss the Lipid Hypothesis so that they can pretend their fatty diet isn't killing them (look at all the advice people give to ignore doctors and reject treatment).

Jody Gorann once attempted to sue Atkins Nutritionals after he developed heart disease on the Atkins Diet.

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/articles/mceowen/Atkins%20Case.pdf

Originally had a total cholesterol of 146, two months on Atkins and it came up to 230, two years later he had angina and required surgical intervention to unclog his coronary artery. By that time, Atkins himself had already died, and his hospital report noted that he had a history of hypertension, congestive heart failure, and myocardial infarction. Similarly, Weston A. Price died of a heart attack, and two leaders of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Mary Enig and Steven Byrne, died of stroke. Prominent low-carb blogger Seth Rogers recently died of heart disease after boasting about how eating butter raises his IQ.

Now help me understand why you got the impression that a high fat, meat-based diet was a good idea.

>>5725579

Caused by a heart attack, which he had a history of

>>5681652

>Atkins didn't prompt any studies that I know of because he used large Inuit communities to be the study subjects for him, and other cultures that ate similarly.

So he studied small groups of primitive people in harsh lands with a thousand non diet related factors that would muddy his data and used that to promote a diet to the American public that we knew from actual testable data is unhealthy? The inuit and other tribes aren't exactly known for being healthy either. While Atkins was busy being obese and heart diseased on his diet, Caldwell Esselstyn was showing proven reversal of heart disease in patients with severe, three-vessel artery disease using a diet that was virtually the opposite of Atkins' diet, and later on Dean Ornish did the same. Atkins promoted his diet for 30 years and never published a peer reviewed paper in a medical journal to show the claimed benefits of his diet. He was a salesman, not a respectable doctor.

>>5606445

He had a (second) heart attack and hit his head. When admitted to the hospital, he was noted for his history of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. His wife refused to allow an autopsy.

>>5606450

I agree they shouldn't have believed that adopting a vegan diet after being diagnosed with cancer would cure their cancer

>>5532108

Your cholesterol levels are pretty shit. Until your total cholesterol is around 100, your levels are considered atherogenic. In the long-term, your risk of dying prematurely, especially of heart-related diseases, is high. Robert Atkins of course suffered 2 heart attacks and died, and on autopsy was noted for his history of myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and hypertension. He made millions while he was alive selling books that virtually everyone in the medical community violently opposed because it's misleading and dangerous.

http://www.atkinsexposed.org/atkins/1/Atkins.htm

Read the history of these "low-carb, saturated fat is healthy" fad diets and understand that nobody of any importance in the medical community agrees with what you believe and the people who taught you to think that way. No the American Heart Association, not the American Dietetic Association, not the American Cancer Association, not the World Health Organization, not the European Food Safety Authority, not the British Heart Foundation. The camp promoting saturated fat are exactly as ridiculous and disrespected among scientists as the people attempting to oppose evolution with "creationist science."

>>5434371

"Slipped on ice" as in he had a second heart attack.

Upon autopsy, he was was noted for his history of miocardial infarction, conjestive heart failure, and hypertension. He was not a healthy man, and he was not promoting a healthy diet.

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-examining-dr-atkins-deathupdated.html