40 Quotes by Robert Atkins

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.

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

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

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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

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

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

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.

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