[extropy-chat] DIET: Atkins smear a PETA scam

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 10 19:49:46 UTC 2004


http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-10-2004/0002106789&EDATE=

Atkins-Blasting 'Physicians' Committee is a Front Group for PETA 
 
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The late Dr. Robert Atkins is
being smeared for his alleged obesity at the time of his death, by a
phony doctors organization that has been exposed as a front group for
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and has been
censured by the American Medical Association (AMA).  The Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has taken in over $1 million
from PETA and the animal rights movement.  PCRM and PETA also share
office space, board members, and staff.
    The AMA has formally censured PCRM in the past, calling its
recommendations "irresponsible" and "potentially dangerous to the
health and welfare of Americans." The AMA has also called PCRM a
"fringe organization" that uses "unethical tactics" and is 
"interested in perverting medical science."
    PCRM's attacks on diets including meat, fish and dairy foods, and
its constant demands for a vegetarian America are rooted in an
animal-rights philosophy.
    The facts on the late Dr. Robert Atkins:

1) Dr. Stuart Trager MD, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council,
told
   the Wall Street Journal that Atkins' heart disease stemmed from
   cardiomyopathy, a condition that was thought to result from a viral
   infection.  Atkins' weight was due to bloating and water-retention
   associated with his condition, and the time he spent in a coma after
   his head injury.
2) Trager's own release this morning reads in part: "Due to water
   retention ..[Atkins] had a weight that varied between 180 and 195.
   During his coma as he deteriorated and his major organs failed,
fluid
   retention and bloating dramatically distorted his body and left him
   at 258 pounds at the time of his death, a documented weight gain
   of over 60 pounds."

In the case of Dr. Atkins, PCRM filched the autopsy report on Dr.
Atkins from the medical examiners office and delivered it to the Wall
Street Journal. This gross breach of medical ethics exposes the
extremism of the PCRM.



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Mike Lorrey
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