Don't Die on Atkins

STEVE BAYT
(Parma/Brook Park, Ohio)
Original posting failed on Sunday in


Prologue: As usual I am not trying to convince the usual people who
post one-line brain dead comments against my attempts to save the
lives of millions of people on Atkins/ Low Carb Death Sentence. My
only interest is the responses of Internet readers' doctors and
emergency room personnel throughout the country.

Also, although love means never having to say, you're sorry. I would
like to apologize for the lack of proofreading in last Sunday's
article. Where the posting form bottom has after "Preview Message"
the choices of "Go Back and Edit" or "Post", my cat accidentally
jumped on my desk and moved the mouse over to Post instead of where I
had it at Go Back And Edit

People interested in not dying on Atkins/Low Carb
death style should consult their doctors and not consult newsgroup
responders-who if on Atkins/Low Carb will probably be dead within 2
years.. There is no American Doctor who will disagree with 98% of the
contents of my articles. .

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Pre-Kathryn Morris Article:"Turning Atkins Into a Closed Case":

DEDICATED TO REBECCA SCHAEFFER who died on July 18,1989. Because in
America we wait for tragedies to occur, with so few to prevent them in
the first place.


Hopefully everyone in these groups has gone to a library and read the
many medical books in the NF616 section. The question of Atkins
shouldn't be is Atkins/ Low Carb fatal, but how can one survive the
inevitable Atkins Related Heart Attack (ARHA.)

Sunday's July 18,2004 comic Fox Trot foreshadowed of 2005 and Atkins.
While Bill Amend created a Tina Fey-like satire. My articles along
with Consumer Reports June 2002 page 30 et al etc. paints more of a
MASH-like Black Humor.

THE TOTAL GUIDE TO A HEALTHY HEART copyright 1999 by Seth. J. Braun,
MD, FACC a board certified Cardiologist and professor at Florida
Atlantic University spends many pages describing what I call Atkins
Related Death Syndrome. Pages 151, 165, 162 and 163 have two great
passages:

"What Atkins neglects to share with the reader is that his diet can be
dangerous" "The Atkins Diet is the adult equivalent of telling
children that they can solve their dietary problems by entering a
candy store and eating whatever they want."

THE YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HEART BOOK call number 616.12
by Barry L. Zaret et al. copyright 2002 supports my ARHA claims on
pages 54, 56, 142, 339, 342, 347, 259 et al. I am hoping Atkins'
healthy next of kin will utilize carbs to burn off fat by walking or
biking to the library and not just sitting in front of their computers
to verify my claims.

Consumer Reports June 2004 page 12 "NET CARB claims on labels have
vastly outstripped the scientific evidence". "In April, The Department
of Treasury Alcohol and Tobacco and Trade Bureau ruled labels on wine,
beer and distilled beverages can't even imply the term ‘net carb' or
any low-carb claim plays a healthful role in weight maintenance "

HEART ATTACK ADVICE TO PATIENTS BY PATIENTS copyright 2002 by Kathleen
Berra MD. Published by Yale University Press and the Cardiac Therapy
Foundtion in Palo Alto (call number 616.1237) states on page 140:

"The Atkins Diet have not been studied thoroughly and there is little
scientific information on which to base conclusions" Page 87 and Page
119 profile people who survived heart attacks about a year into Atkins
,which I am calling Atkins Related Heart Attacks(ARHA's).

Those people survived because someone called 911 within the hour time
that determines life and death of an ARHA person. For 60% of ARHAers'
die before arriving at the hospital. 50% of the situations resulted in
death before Paramedics even arrived. An overwhelming number of times
a medical examiner (like on Crossing Jordan or CSI) explains something
like "The group decided to hold an all day meeting to decide whether
the person was having a heart attack."

Many coroners report people died before a call was even made. If
you're with someone on Atkins for more than a year or so call 911
first then apologize if wrong later.

Also, collectively averaging 40 books I used for the last three
articles, a heart attack victim has a 25-30% increased chance of
survival if someone at the scene knows CPR. For paramedics will arrive
with everything else needed.

Every year about 720,000 people die due to Atkins related death style.
Half because people around the ARHAer didn't take the situation
seriously enough to call 911. Anyone who knows someone on an Atkins /
Low Carb death style should monitor them closely during any aerobic
activity. They should also insist the Atkins person have regular
Electrocardiograms, Body Fat Tests and Cholesterol tests. A few trips
to their doctor could get them off Atkins and able to not suffer an
ARHA.

It is vital that anyone on Atkins inform someone at any events where
aerobic activity will be involved. For after even 6 months on Atkins,
the excessive fat and lack of carbs could result in heart attacks.
Although a year on Atkins is a more realistic time frame.

There should be plenty of people with cell phones turned on with speed
dial to the local emergency room. For with an Atkins Related Heart
Attack every second will mean the difference between an Atkins
Intervention at a hospital, and an Atkins Funeral.

Anyone on Atkins who decides to exercise alone should take a cell
phone with a plastic cover so the phone won't break when the heart
attack starts. It would save more time if the phone has a speed dial
to the local hospital instead of 911 for if one can't speak, the
hospital operator can then use GBS to locate the person with an
ambulance. A call to 911 would create ambiguity as to a police or
medical emergency.

Everyone on Atkins should never go exercising without a cell phone, or
some identification with a website that ER personnel could use to tell
specifically what the ARHAer has done. As previously stated, a doctor
will be able to tell generally how much fat and cholesterol an ARHA
has, but there is no Carbohydrate Test. Or any need to restrict one's
amount.

If a group is at an event involving aerobic activity, even a softball
game, and a known Atkins person starts grabbing their chest, don't
assume it's not a heart attack. For following Atkins will most
certainly result in Coronary Artery Disease.

If the event is at a location where a hospital is too far away for a
paramedic to arrive, the ARHAer should be taken to the hospital with
the ARHAers minimum exertion. If they have eaten recently try to get
them to sit up to avoid suffocation by vomit. Once the healthy low fat
high carb person(s) gets the AHRAer to the ER, they should yell as
loud as possible something like "This person is having a heart
attack". Continuing YALE's HEART BOOK the persons should be as
obnoxious as necessary to get immediate attention.

No hospital employee will ever, ever, ever, ever, be even remotely
upset for even a false alarm or any amount of obnoxiousness in the
hospital.

Alcoholics have interventions usually at their homes by loved ones who
escort them to rehab centers. Atkins Related Heart Attack sufferers
will have their interventions at Coronary Care Units surrounded by
hospital employees.

Loved ones of ARHAers should expect their ARHAer to have a 10-day
hospital stay. During that time they should make sure the Atkins food
has been thrown out, along with all their low-carb foods and somewhere
the ARHAer probably has a 10-foot poster of Dr. Atkins to be shredded.

When they arrive home their diets should be carefully monitored to
make sure the ARHA survivor is eating at least 200 grams of Carbs and
no more than 20% of calories from fat.

The biggest factor of how many millions of people will die in 2005 due
to the media allowing mass communication of the concept of Atkins/Low
Carb death style, will be how many ARHAers make it to the hospital.
About 4


00,000 Heart Attack sufferers die before a
paramedic even arrives.

There are no long-term studies on Atkins (Berra page 40) simply
because there are so few long-term survivors. Either people save
themselves by going back to a healthy diet, due to human's
self-protection mode, or they die.

For people can't survive without at least 100 grams daily of
carbohydrates. In order to maintain that amount many people will
seemingly subconsciously consume carbohydrates without even knowing.
Most bodies' instinct to stay alive will prevail without any conscious
level recognition they are actually eating carbs.

It's sort of like the thousands of subconscious things people do every
day to not die-like properly walking down stairs, not cutting oneself
during dinner preparation.

Many people who start entering pre-ARHA mode will simply
subconsciously consume carbohydrates. Thus, the self-instinct survival
could save millions of lives. How many millions of ARDS totals will
ensue will be a sort of battle between conscious level marketing and
subconscious level survival.

The danger of the present marketing is that fewer products are
available which have carbohydrates. At present pace, people's
self-instinct to not die won't be possible. The July 18, 2004 FOX TROT
Satire of the lack of carbohydrates in the market place should really
be viewed as black humor. For "Fox Trot" quotes "This Atkins craze
can't end soon enough" It certainly can't for there are only so many
paramedics and Colma, California is too full of dead people.

The next article: Adam Walsh, Columbine, Rebecca Schaeffer, AIDS,
September 11 and Atkins. Can disasters be prevented? Or must there be
death before apologies. For Love Means Never Having To Say. You're
Sorry.

STEVE BAYT


EPILOGUE:

To get help for those on Atkins or loved ones who don't want to be
attending funerals go to www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter
www.americanheart.org Call 1-800-242-8721 or THE CLEVELAND CLINC
Preventive Cardiology Rehabilitation Program (216)444-9353. Visit your
local library's NF616 section. Or the most preferred option to visit
your local hospital or any doctor. For According to HEART DISEASE FOR
DUMMIES Coronary Rehab Programs are so good that 88% of Heart Attack
survivors don't have a 2nd.