Robert Atkins Quotes

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

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.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

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.

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Don't fix what's not broken.

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.