Neil Cavuto's Defense of Dr. Atkins, "Steak Through the Heart? "

[FromVA]

WOW!! How many of you saw Neil Cavuto's fantastic defense of Dr. Atkins this afternoon!! Wonderful, wonder, wonderful.

[pd Rydia]

Who and through what medium?

[Kristine]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111154,00.html


Steak Through the Heart?

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
By Neil Cavuto

I think it's time to update you on a few key facts on this Atkins situation.

Update 1: He's dead. He can't defend himself.

Update 2: His medical records were made public. How would you like that to happen to you, or a loved one?

Update 3: The people who revealed those records were a group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Update 4: That group advocates vegetarianism and is among the Atkins diet's biggest critics.

Update 5: They seem to have an axe to grind.

Update 6: They seem to be selective when they grind that ax.

Update 7: Atkins was not, and I repeat was not, obese at the end of his life. According to a hospital record obtained by USA Today, the good doctor was all of 195 pounds when he was admitted to a hospital after a fall on April 8, 2003.

Update 8: He lapsed into a coma and died nine days later. No one, and I repeat no one, knows for sure how much weight he gained with water retention while he was comatose. But clearly, it wasn't the fault of a guy downing ring-dings. For god's sake, he was dying!

Update 9: Dr. Atkins had cardiomyopathy that resulted from a viral infection, not his diet.

Update 10: I had a chance to see Dr. Atkins several times over the last few years. He always seemed in pretty good shape to me. And why wouldn't he be? He was the face of a diet revolution for more than 40 years! You don't stay on message if you're not staying in shape. And Atkins did and was.

They say dead men tell no tales. I just pity the fact this dead man can't tell his critics where to get off.

Let them eat their vegetables. But for god's sake, let this man rest in peace.

Watch Neil Cavuto's Common Sense weekdays at 4 p.m. ET on Your World with Cavuto.

[tamarian]

Wow, well said! :thup:

Wa'il

[pd Rydia]

Nice and concise. I like it.

[FromVA]

It reads well, but the tone Neil used was the topping on the Atkins Advantage Bar :) !

[SisterT]

Way to go, Neil!!

:thup: :thup:

[cls923]

Right on Neil!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kyrasdad]

Well said on his part.

The thing about all this is, the PCRM is more or less spitting in the wind. Atkins (and other low carb diets) aren't fads that will go away when they hype does. Low carb diets work. They work for nearly everyone. That's why it could survive the brutal scrutiny of the medical establishment all these years. PCRM may as well go elsewhere to peddle their lies. The truth is, people lose weight and feel great on a low carb lifestyle.

No amount of scare tactics is going to affect the real life effect of this. I started in September 2003, all through a chain of friends who have had success with it. My wife ran into a high school friend in the store who had lost 70 pounds on it. Another friend of mine had lost about 40 when I started (he's lost 86 now). These are the reasons I started it. Not the hype, of which there wasn't so much at that time.

After I lost my first 40 pounds, my mother noticed and started it. She's fought her weight for years on Weight Watchers, and with a punishing walk routine, and has never really been able to stay ahead of it. Suddenly, she's succeeding. A guy I work with who weighed 325 started it after he noticed what I'd lost -- he has lost almost 70 pounds now. There is a human chain of success on this thing, and PCRM can't break it. They can scare some people some of the time, but results and good health trump that.

I think we can relax. They can't ban us from this diet, and our continued successes help to educate others better than an Atkins Center press release or a PCRM lie ever could.

You know it's got to drive those weasels mad that they can't do anything about this. It's got to infuriate their little cauliflower hearts. That's why they have slandered Dr. Atkins in his grave, publicized his medical records, and made one deceptive claim after another: they know they have lost the battle.

[pd Rydia]

Amen, kyrasdad.

It gives me comfort to know their shameless scare tactics are futile.

Still, it's a bit infuriating that they would do this in complete disregard of what's actually healthy for the majority of people. That's my problem with it.

[Skinny Jim]

Wow...I caught that segment with Cavuto interviewing both the doctor from the Atkins clinic (sorry, forgot his name...) and Dr. (Is that a carrot in your pocket..?)McDougal. Cavuto would not stand for McDougal's line of B***S***, and it was obvious that McDougal had an agenda to try to discredit Dr. Atkins. I would love to get that segment on tape. It was really refreshing.