What an oxymoron
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has turned out to be. This vegan organization has one colossal ax to grind with their archrival, Darth Atkins. This is an old score that they’ve unfairly flung in front of public before, all in effort to squash low carb idea and its adherents. The first time was when Robert Atkins suffered his fatal accident, a cranial blow that caused edema – when water accumulates within tissues. This tragic condition, obviously, caused his body to fill with fluid and thus, his overall weight to rise.
The so-called “Responsible Physicians” seized on this dying man’s condition by calling Atkins obese – which he was not – and telling everyone who would listen that his diet killed him – which it did not.
In end, all they accomplished is to add bitterness and confusion to nutrition science by their shrill, unfair attacks on those who happen to disagree with them.
So, after maligning a dead man, they’ve now put up Florida businessman Jody Gorran to sue Atkins Corporation. Gorran – channeling those Responsible Physicians – made following claims. First, Atkins was a doctor and Gorran was on his diet. Second, he had to have heart angioplasty to clear his arteries after 2 years on diet. And third, he reasoned, of 40,000 factors that affect weight and health … Atkins approach must have been very one to have done it to him.
Of course, I’m no low carb acolyte, and do anxiously encourage lemmings to rebound back from intoxication with this high protein approach. But you still have to be fair, or you lose integrity, credibility, and confuse everyone in process. That’s why Responsible vegans need to go sit in time out, before heading off to their anger management therapy.
