Robert Atkins
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
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
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
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
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
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
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
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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

Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins

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