2004-02-12 - 10:34 a.m.

Dr Atkins died obese. Why does anyone take into consideration his diet plans? How can you trust the diet books that someone who died obese wrote? A clasic example of "do as I say, not as I do"? Just nonsense.

If you yourself know how to stay in shape and write diet books that sell tens of millions of copies - just tell me how / why can / do yopu want to be obese? Can there be any reason? I frankly can't think of any.

See dr Atkins himself. Either the diet does not work - or - maybe I can think of one reason not following it. Many people have got problems with various organs after a few months of atkins. Heart problems, kidney and lever problems, and so on. People who had had their full body checked before the diet. In those cases atkins seems it can do more damage and faster to ytour body than anorexia does. Then, vegetarian atkins is an oxymoron. I think it has just a very limited use. Not for vegetarians or vegans (that normally stay in shape anyway), not for those with heart, lever, kidney problems .. and probably not for many others either.

Not worth writing more about atkins. Today typing is painful. I can use one finger of my right hand, I burned it quite badly cooking. If there was a NHS first aid somewhere at walking distance, I'd probably walk in, if I knew I would still be in time for walk. As there isn't, Boots, and limited typing till last week. At least I have an .. advanced pain tolerance.