Robert Atkins Quotes & Sayings

25 most famous Robert Atkins quotes and sayings (celebrity). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

“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.”

“The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”