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...religion or politics, but if you want to get a real fight going, talk about your diet. The low-fat vs. low-carb battle got ugly last week, with both sides arguing over how hefty a corpse Dr. Robert Atkins left behind. Not since the death of Ayatullah Khomeini have people fought so much over a dead body. From the moment Atkins died from head injuries after slipping on a patch of ice in Manhattan last April at age 72, the low-fat fanatics have been trying to prove the low-carb guru had been on a diet to disaster...
Atkins Nutritionals, which has parlayed the low-carb concept into a food business with annual revenues of more than $100 million, countered by sending USA Today a hospital record showing that Atkins weighed 195 lbs. when he was admitted in April, a detail that is supported by photographs of Atkins taken in the weeks before his mishap. While he was on life support, the Atkins camp claimed, he retained fluids that caused him to balloon 63 lbs. "He became essentially unrecognizable, he was so bloated," said Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council. That IV, it turns...
Another scattering of studies showed that the low-carb Atkins diet really does melt the pounds away--at least in the short run. Subjects in two trials ate either a low-carb diet or a conventional low-calorie, high-carb menu. At the end of six months, the carb cutters lost twice as many pounds as the calorie counters. The pounds, however, quickly reappeared after the first part of the study was completed. By the end of the next six months, the two test groups showed no difference in the amount of weight they had lost. The studies also found...
...were they low-carb? A U.S. health-food manufacturer received a 15-month jail term for repackaging regular doughnuts as a low-fat snack. Federal investigations revealed the chocolate-glazed bun harbored 18 grams of fat and over 500 calories...
Popularizer of the high-protein, low-carb diet, in an interview on CNN's Crossfire...