On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:27:46 +1000, Who_me?
wrote:

Do you take gullibility pills? If that was the case, why don't all corpses
of people who die after hospitalisation gain weight over their initial weight?

The controversy started BEFORE he died, before he went into hospital after
a photo of him was circulated showing a huge weight gain. The Atkins group
claim that it was a Photoshopped image. Maybe it was, but his autopsy
photos weren't.

According to the official hospital records (released by his widow), he
weighed 195 when he was admitted to the hospital on 4/8/2003. At 6
feet tall, that may not be the absolute optimum but it's certainly a
quite reasonable weight.

According to the official death certificate, he weighed 258 at the
time of his death on 4/17/2003 (after having been in a coma for more
than a week). This is consistent with kidney failure and fluid
accumulation. You had IV fluids going in (with nutrition and
medicines to try to keep him alive) and no fluids coming out. Of
course a person gains weight when that happens. A fluid in a 2-liter
IV bag weighs a bit over 4 pounds. If he gets only 2 IV bags per day,
that's over 8 pounds/day. In a week that's over 56 pounds. Get the
picture?

Why don't all people who die after hospitalization gain huge amounts
of weight? Gee, do you think it might have something to do with the
fact that the great majority do NOT go through kidney failure and get
kept alive for a significant amount of time in that state?

You might want to consider how many gullibility pills YOU have been
swallowing.