Explore Quotes by Robert Atkins

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

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

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

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.

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

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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

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

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

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.

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

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

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.