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http://www.townhall.com/news/politic...0040212b.shtml

Doctor Who Got Atkins' Death Report Is Selling Diet Book
(CNSNews.com) - The death of low-carb diet physician Robert Atkins
might have produced a financial boon for a Nebraska doctor who divulged
private medical information about Atkins, and a political windfall for
an animal-rights activist group that received the information.

Strike one. He cheated by getting the report and cheated
again by releasing it to a political activist group.

Dr. Richard M. Fleming, a cardiologist and founder of the Fleming Heart
and Health Institute in Omaha, Neb., disclosed the report two months
after releasing his own diet book in December. Fleming's book, titled
"Stop Inflammation Now!" has a list price of $24.95 and is critical of
high-protein diets like the one made famous by Atkins.

Strike two. Atkins is high-fat medium-protein not
high protein. When you're complaining about something
it really helps if you're not an illiterate on the
topic.

Information Fleming obtained from the New York City medical examiner's
office on Atkins' death showed the diet guru was obese when he died
last April from the complications of a fall.

Strike three, the old outright lie. The day Dr A
slipped on the ice and broke his head he weighed 197
pounds. At six feet height some would argue that he
was below his ideal weight at the time, some think
that is about ideal. Either way it is far from
obese. Those who use his weight the day he died
are liars who would need to be actually illiterate
to believe such a claim. Sure, he git the high
protein thing wrong so he's clearly clueless about
what Atkins actually is, but what's the chance that
a board certified cardiologist is actually illiterate?

The examiner's report
suggested Atkins had a history of congestive heart failure and high
blood pressure, which his widow and supporters have denied.

Heart problems caused by virus. High blood pressure
would have been a natural while in a coma bloating
at the rate of 10 pounds per day between fall and
death.

A critic of Fleming accused him of having a "profit motive" by sharing
the report with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. That
group has received more than $1 million from People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the animal-rights movement.

Motives are irrelevant sometimes. Three strikes and
you're out. The guy's an illiterate or a liar if he
read the report and concluded Dr A was obese.

"Fleming has a long-term animus against Atkins.

Duh.

He has been trying to
demonstrate for years that Atkins dieting is harmful to people," said
David Martosko, director of research for the Center for Consumer
Freedom.

And failing actually finding anyone who followed the
directions and got sick as a result he had to resort
to lies. What a whanker.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine didn't return a call
seeking comment.

What a shock. ;^)

Regardless of whether action is brought against Fleming, Martosko said
the doctor likely knew how the situation would play out.

If he actually truely believes his statements that
Atkins is high protein and that Dr A was obese the day
he fell, then he's too stupid to be able to work through
"how the situation would play out". Of course barring
late-life brain damage, that level of stupidity would
also bar him from ever getting into med school in the
first place. Med schools don't smile on people who
can't read those nasty book things.