I bet many of you have heard this myth:

And that myth is that Dr. Atkins died of his own diet.  FALSE!
The information I found below can be found at the following website along with some backround information, but this info was widely spread by "the Vegan group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and related groups and individuals".  Here's the link to the info: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/atkinsdiet/a/dratkinsdeath.htm

Atkins' Death

On April 8, 2003, at age 72, Dr. Atkins slipped on the ice while walking to work, hitting his head and causing bleeding around his brain. He lost consciousness on the way to the hospital, where he spent two weeks in intensive care. His body deteriorated rapidly and he suffered massive organ failure. During this time, his body apparently retained an enormous amount of fluid, and his weight at death was recorded at 258 pounds. His death certificate states that the cause of death was "blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma".

There you go, so you can no longer say "I'm not going to do a diet that killed the guy who made it", because that isn't true!

stop making excuses!

Why not do atkins?  "there's too many limitations".  Nonsense!
When you can have butter, full fat cream cheese, eggs WITH yolk, delicious tasting low carb bread, bacon, sasuage, chicken WITH  the skin, full fat sour cream, pork chops and steaks w/o trimming the fat, pork rinds and the list goes on. 
When you are craving something sweet, there are atkins bars, shakes and recepies for chocolate bark, fudge, mousse and other desserts. 
I'm no doctor, but this is something i've learned from researching this diet and watching the documentary "Fat Head".  We only get ONE body.  While the medical field has made it possible to replace some body parts, patch things up as good as new and give us meds for everything, why let it get to that if you can stop it early on?  Many docs put people on atkins who have diabeties - wouldn't you think that the atkins lifestyle would be great to PREVENT diabeties?
what exactly is diabeties? it's a disease in which a person has a high blood sugar (glucose) level as a result of the body either not producing enough insulin, or because body cells do not properly respond to the insulin that is produced.  For most people, it devlops from all the years of eating too many sugars and too many carbs.  Our bodies produce insulin to fight the high levels of sugar, after soo much abuse to this system, the body devlops diabeties (and it's not just a condition that affects old people).
Did you know that breads and cereals are full of carbohydrates (both regular and whole grain)?  These carbohydrates covert to sugar.  While you are trying to live the low fat healthy life the doctor prescribed, your efforts are being sabotaoged.  Why does the gov't tell us to eat soo many servings of grains?  BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP. 
Switching to low carb can be hard for you, but not all things in life are easy.  I've gone through air force basic training, military police training and I have had 2 children.  Those were not easy things, but were well worth my efforts.  Yes, going low carb will change the way you eat, but isn't it worth it to take care of yourself, live long enough to see your grandchildren and have good health instead of shelling out thousands to the doctors?  I know for me, i love the low carb lifestyle VS. the low fat lifestyle and for people that know me, I lost 100 pounds in high school following a super strict low fat and low calorie diet (which was terrible!), so i know a thing or 2 about dieting.
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