Robert Atkins Quotes

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

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

~ 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

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

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

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

~ Robert Atkins

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

~ Robert Atkins

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

~ Robert Atkins