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Atkins Was Clinically Obese When he Died

Dr. Robert Atkins was clinically obese at the time of his death, according to medical reports made public today. He was six feet tall and weighed 258 pounds. Perhaps the extra weight contributed to his brain injury when he slipped. Anyone taking high school physics would know that force = mass X acceleration, and if he was carrying an extra 100 pounds that would not have helped. The examiner's report said that Dr. Atkins had suffered a previous heart attack, congestive heart failure and...