Robert Atkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
-- Robert Atkins

#Epidemics #People #Obesity
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.
-- Robert Atkins

#Cancer #Tea #Benefits
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?
-- Robert Atkins

#Eye #Dark #Age
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

#Simple #Play #Energy
A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
-- Robert Atkins

#Heart #Risk #Disease
Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
-- Robert Atkins

#Guy #Carbohydrates #Bad Guys
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

#Obesity Epidemic #People #Realizing
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
-- Robert Atkins

#Junk #Would Be #Junk Food
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
-- Robert Atkins

#Character #Chemicals #Disorder
There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.
-- Robert Atkins

#Cancer #Oncology #Too Much
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

#Vitamins And Minerals #People #Healthy
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.
-- Robert Atkins

#Believe #Loss #Self
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

#Ideas #Alternatives #Weight
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
-- Robert Atkins

#Heart #Want #Blockage
There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.
-- Robert Atkins

#War #Cancer #Medicine
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
-- Robert Atkins

#Maintenance #Fruit #Lifestyle
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
-- Robert Atkins

#Average #Vegetables #Vegetarian
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.
-- Robert Atkins

#Should #Diets
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

#Pounds #Three #Goes On
I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.
-- Robert Atkins

#People #Trying #Looks
I think I can wipe out diabetes.
-- Robert Atkins

#Thinking #Wiping Out #Wipe
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

#Sweet #School #Years
Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.
-- Robert Atkins

#Mean #People #Physicians

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