Top 26 Robert Atkins Quotes
#1. How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
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#2. 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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#3. I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.
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#5. The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
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#6. I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
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#7. Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
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#8. Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.
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#9. 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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#11. I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.
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#12. Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.
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#13. I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
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#14. There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.
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#15. I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.
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#16. 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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#17. Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.
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#18. I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.
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#19. A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.
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#20. Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
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#21. 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.
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#22. A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
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#23. 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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#24. There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.
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#25. I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
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#26. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.
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