10 Quotes By Robert Atkins


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

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

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

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 on diet

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 on diet

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 on diet

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

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.
Robert Atkins on food

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 on food

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 on medical