http://atkins.com/atkinslegacy/atki...sbloomberg.html
I emailed atkins.com to get bloomberg off of their site..
THen this
Atkins' widow: Mayor Mike should put his lip on a diet
'I was very, very hurt, and I was angry'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The widow of diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins went on national television Friday to demand an apology from Mayor Bloomberg, who called Atkins “fat” when he apparently thought he wasn’t being recorded.
While eating pasta at a photo op at a Brooklyn firehouse earlier this week, the mayor used a common expletive to express doubts about the details of Atkins’ death and said, “I mean, the guy was fat.”
“I was very, very hurt, and I was angry,” Veronica Atkins said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” She said she was “sick and tired of my husband being always maligned and his life’s work being trivialized.”
Atkins, whose controversial diet stresses eating meat, eggs and cheese over pasta, bread and vegetables, died last year at 72 from head injuries sustained from a fall on an icy sidewalk.
Veronica Atkins asserted that her husband died from “severe trauma to his head.”
“His arteries were clear,” she said.
In his remarks at the firehouse, Bloomberg, believing microphones were off, said the food at an Atkins fund-raiser in the Hamptons had been “inedible” and said he had to spit an appetizer into his napkin.
Atkins’ widow said Friday that the caterer for the event was “considered to be one of the best in the Hamptons.”
A mayoral spokesman, Jordan Barowitz, declined to comment on Friday.
The day after his comments were publicized, Bloomberg told reporters that he “would never criticize someone about their waistline.” At the time, Barowitz said that’s as much as an apology as there would be.
Atkins’ widow said the mayor’s remark was not enough, and that she wanted him to say he was sorry.
“You have to tell it to me and the world,” she said.