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Article: Dr Atkins 'was 18st with a bad heart when he died'.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2004
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Byline: BARRY WIGMORE
DR ROBERT Atkins - whose diet is followed by three million Britons - had a serious heart disease and was a clinically obese 181/2stone when he died, a report revealed yesterday.
The 72-year-old died last April after hitting his head when he slipped on an icy New York street.
Yesterday, the respected Wall Street Journal revealed that a confidential report on his death by the New York Medical Examiner had been leaked to them by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which opposes the Atkins diet.
It showed, said the Journal, that before his death the 6ft tall diet guru had suffered a heart attack, ...