about atkins

[Dane]

Anyone know how atkins of atkins diet died??

[bernardo]

He was grossly overweight (c.19 stone) due to water retention.

[Rabelais]

Robert Atkins died aged 72 in New York the April before last after slipping and hitting his head on an icy pavement.

[Loosehead]

yep he managed to get up to 19st (althought that's not directly why he died) and fell over on an icy pavement, cracked his head, never woke up.

[woofgang]

The water retention was due to heart failure, nothing to do with the diet

[kev100]

Has to make you wonder why one of the most famous "so called" dietry experts of our time died weighing 19 stone doesn't it?

[Quizmonster]

Jim Fixx, whose book 'The Complete Book of Running' started the jogging craze, died of a heart attack...whilst running! Can we, therefore, assume that running is desperately bad for us?

[jno]

presumably if you spend twice as much time jogging as lesser mortals, you have twice as much chance of dying while you're doing it?

[acw]

Most people die in the home* - so perhaps we should all get out more!!!

* Well - most accidents happen there anyway!

[jno]

that ain't the half of it, acw!

3 people die each year testing a 9v battery on their tongue.
142 people were injured in 1998 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
58 people are injured each year using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.
31 people have died since 1996 by watering Christmas trees with the fairy lights switched on.
19 people have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.
4 people have broken arms after cracker pulling accidents.
101 people since 1997 have needed broken parts of plastic toys removed from the soles of their feet.
18 people had serious burns in 1998 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
543 people were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
5 people were injured last year in accidents involving out of control Scalectrix cars.
8 people cracked their skull in 1997 after falling asleep while throwing up into the toilet.

slightly out-of-date statistics from here