Did the Atkins Diet Really Kill Dr. Atkins?
Science, not scare-mongering, should be dominating the low-carbohydrate versus low-fat diet debate. By Anthony Colpo. February 17, 2004. Dr. Robert Atkins was never a stranger to controversy. His high-fat, low-carbohydrate dietary guidelines contradicted virtually every closely-held tenet of mainstream nutrition, bringing him under constant attack from defenders of the low-fat diet doctrine. Atkins died in April last year from a head injury he sustained after falling on an icy New York footpath, but his demise has done little to stem the controversy surrounding his dietary recommendations. As the recent commotion surrounding the New York diet guru’s death report clearly illustrates, his nutritional legacy is still a subject of heated debate. The current uproar began after a Nebraska-based cardiologist by the name of Richard Fleming wrote to the New York medical examiner’s office requesting a copy of Atkins’ death report. Despite the confidential nature of such reports, someone at the o
