Yesterday we reported that diet creator Dr. Robert Atkins was carrying two and a half bills when he died of heart-induced problems.

The medical report showed that as well as his obesity, 6-foot tall Dr. Atkins had a history of heart trouble, congestive heart failure and hypertension.

However the widow of the big-boned doctor denied that his diet, which specializes in eating large amounts of meat and cheese, had anything to do with her husbands death.

“Let me state emphatically that I have been assured by my husband’s physicians that my husband’s health problems late in life were completely unrelated to his diet or any diet."

Of course detractors wonder how double cheeseburgers could be considered a diet.