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Diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins, who died last year after a fall in New York, had a history of heart
disease and weighed 258 pounds at the time of his death, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have qualified as obese, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention's body-mass index calculator.
Veronica Atkins issued a statement acknowledging that her husband had been diagnosed with a heart
condition known as cardiomyopathy about three years before he died, and that he had had a cardiac
arrest in April 2002.
"I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health problems late in life were
completely unrelated to his diet or any diet," she told the Journal.
See full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4230348/
disease and weighed 258 pounds at the time of his death, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have qualified as obese, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention's body-mass index calculator.
Veronica Atkins issued a statement acknowledging that her husband had been diagnosed with a heart
condition known as cardiomyopathy about three years before he died, and that he had had a cardiac
arrest in April 2002.
"I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health problems late in life were
completely unrelated to his diet or any diet," she told the Journal.
See full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4230348/