Robert Atkins

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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

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

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

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

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.

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.