Robert Atkins

Celebrity

1930-10-17

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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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