Quotes from 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Don't fix what's not broken.

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

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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

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