Robert Atkins quotes

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. (Robert Atkins)
You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.
Robert Atkins
Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.
Robert Atkins
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.
Robert Atkins
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
Robert Atkins
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
Robert Atkins
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.
Robert Atkins
A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
Robert Atkins
Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.
Robert Atkins
There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.
Robert Atkins
I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. (Robert Atkins)
Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
Robert Atkins
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
Robert Atkins
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
Robert Atkins
I think I can wipe out diabetes.
Robert Atkins
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
Robert Atkins
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
Robert Atkins
It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.
Robert Atkins
Don't fix what's not broken.
Robert Atkins
I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.
Robert Atkins
I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad. (Robert Atkins)
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
Robert Atkins