Vegetarian Star

Dennis Palumbo at the Huffington Post has blogged about how secrets are often uncovered in the lives of famous people posthumously.

There will always be the affairs, drug use, and what “really went on behind closed doors,” but who would have thought a group of vegetarian doctors would go and make a “tell all” case about the private health of a doctor who advocated a heavily meat based diet.

Dr. Atkins was famous for promoting a high protein, low carbohydrate, and mostly meat diet for weight loss and maintenance, but his health around time of death showed a pattern that suggested he died from more than natural causes.

Atkins’ health records were accidentally released to a Nebraskan physician, who passed them along to the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine who graciously used his history of high blood pressure and heart disease to publicly discredit his diet.

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