Incredible shrinking journalist

Don Braid
For The Calgary Herald

Friday, April 18, 2003

Because of Dr. Robert C. Atkins, the diet revolutionary who died Thursday after a fall, there's a lot less of me than there used to be.

To be precise, 35 pounds less. I owe my radical shrinkage to Atkins, and will be forever grateful to this remarkable man who had the courage to stand up to North America's medical establishment for more than 30 years.

He was called a charlatan, a quack and even a criminal. But Atkins has proved to be mostly right about food and diet, while his accusers were mostly wrong.

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