“Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.”
Robert Atkins“A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.”
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“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“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