Would Dr. Atkins Approve?

Robert Atkins (nutritionist) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Would Dr. Atkins approve of garcinia cambogia or green coffee bean extract or the new probiotic Cardioviva which is already approved for the Canadian market and is due to hit the American, European and Australian markets sometime this year? The answer is an unequivocal YES!
While there has been a good deal of speculation as to the cause of Dr. Robert Atkins‘ death, I have it first hand from the foundation he and his wife Veronica started and which she administers to this day, that Dr. Atkins died due a slip and fall injury which caused a subdural hematoma (bleeding in the brain), coma and ultimately death.
While Dr. Atkins was a minimalist when it came to both pharmaceuticals and supplements, he was always careful to use evidence-based practice, rather than fad thinking. Very few people also know that Dr. Atkins was initially a cardiologist, that he loved good food and had his own battles with weight management during his years in medical school, internship and residency. He never became an emaciated rake of a man and never advocated anyone becoming an advertisement for anorexia nervosa!
Dr. Atkins established the relationships between obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and heart disease pretty early on and advocated diet wherever possible to combat hypertension, high cholesterol and the sedentary lifestyle that often accompanies obesity.
Was Dr. Atkins bulletproof? Not hardly! Did he have atherosclerosis? Quite probably since there is not a person alive past the age of 12 who does not! Was Dr. Atkins subject to accidents, injury, disease and death? Certainly! All too often detractors of the low carbohydrate diet forget Dr. Atkins’ advocacy of whole foods, often raw and unpeeled. And few would see commercially prepared bread, sugar in all its disguises, genetically modified food or highly processed food as healthful in any way.