Robert Atkins Professions : Physician Born : October 17, 1930 Died : April 17, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Robert Atkins 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. Robert Atkins energy simple play A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease. Robert Atkins risk disease heart 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. Robert Atkins oncology cancer too-much The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. Robert Atkins obesity-epidemic epidemics people 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 obesity-epidemic realizing people 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. Robert Atkins alternatives weight ideas I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage. Robert Atkins blockage want heart 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 three pounds goes-on Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from. Robert Atkins cancer benefits tea Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that. Robert Atkins carbohydrates bad-guys guy Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food. Robert Atkins junk-food junk would-be Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. Robert Atkins physicians mean people Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet. Robert Atkins lifestyle maintenance fruit 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 sweet years school What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff? Robert Atkins eye age dark If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise. Robert Atkins self loss believe I think I can wipe out diabetes. Robert Atkins wiping-out wipe thinking I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian. Robert Atkins vegetarian vegetables average I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad. Robert Atkins trying people looks Don't fix what's not broken. Robert Atkins broken-heart broken heart Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors
