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Article: A bloated body, vicious rivals and the mystery of Dr Atkins' last days.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2004
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Byline: ROSS BENSON
THE SIGHT of his own body in the mirror convinced Dr Robert Atkins he had to go on a diet. 'I was 33, I appeared to be 45 - and I weighed 13 stone,' he recalled. Atkins was so appalled he set about devising a way to shed his excess pounds. He succeeded - and went on to earn a fortune urging people to follow his example and eat themselves slim by gorging on fats.
Yet it was revealed this week that when he died, the man who gave his name to the most controversial diet of the past 100 years weighed an astonishing 18st 6lb. By the internationally recognised height-to-weight chart, he was obese. And, say his detractors, the diet he ...