Summary
What's left unsaid about the Dr. Atkins debate is nothing short of
astonishing. While this major debate continues over whether Dr. Atkins
was, himself, overweight or suffering from heart disease,
nobody
questions the health of other doctors who regularly dish out health
advice to their patients. Why is Dr. Atkins grilled over this issue when
there's absolutely no attention given to all the other MDs in the
country, most of whom are nutritionally illiterate to begin with?
Fact is, most physicians are in terrible health. I've met a lot of
doctors, and I only know one who is in excellent health. It all comes
down to credibility: if a doctor is overweight, stressed out, and
suffering from diseases, by what right does he or she have to advise
other people on how to be healthy in the first place?
It only makes
sense: get your health advice from healthy people, not from
people who only have a medical degree. Medical schools don't even teach
health. They teach diseases and drugs.
Back to Dr. Atkins, the
entire debate has no purpose other than to distract people from the real
credibility gap of our modern medical system. Dr. Atkins was on to
something. His diet really works, and he fought the entire medical
establishment to promote what he believed in. The diet isn't perfect,
but it was far better than what the ADA, AHA (American Heart
Association) and other health industry groups were promoting. And the
industry can't stand it. Now that Dr. Atkins is dead, the attacks on Dr.
Atkins' credibility have only intensified. Leave it to Western medicine
to kick a guy after he's already passed away. At least Dr. Atkins had a
real accident (hitting his head on the ground as he fell). Most
physicians die from chronic health failures that have nothing to do with
traumatic injuries.
Original source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/nyregion/11atkins.html?ex=1080018000&
en=caffeddc73ca2959&ei=5070
Details
What Killed Dr. Atkins, and What Keeps the Issue Alive?
Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet doctor who popularized the notion that
dieters could eat fat and lose weight, has been dead for nearly a year,
after he fell on some ice and hit his head last April, yet indecorous
questions about his health and, yes, his weight persist, and the mayor,
who hasn't even been on the diet, can't seem to stay out of it all.
The report concludes that Dr. Atkins, 72, had a history of heart
attack and congestive heart failure and notes that he weighed 258 pounds
at death.
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