I'm not a big Rush Limbaugh fan, but I had his show on in the car just now.
He was wondering why everybody was trashing Dr. Atkins. He got an answer. It seems there was a phony organization of "Doctors" formed to get Atkin's medical records and then proceed to trash him by leaving out the details that Gary mentioned.
Further investigation showed that the group behind the phony organization was made up of radical animal rights advocates. In other words they were trying to discredit him and therefore stop all the meat eaters! If this is true it is really amazing. I would have thought the bread or sugar industry was behind it.
After all, Dr. Atkins died at age 72 after falling on the ice and hitting his head on concrete. It's not like he dropped dead at 40 from hardening of the arteries.
One thing Rush said that I do agree with is, "Why are so many people seemingly looking for reasons to discredit others?" As he said, if you don't agree with this eating plan, or any diet, just don't do it.
DonM

[This message has been edited by DonM (edited 02-10-2004).]