Food Quotes by Robert Atkins

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

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

— Robert Atkins

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had…

— Robert Atkins

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and…

— Robert Atkins

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

— 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…

— Robert Atkins

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role…

— Robert Atkins