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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

Very, Gaining, Carbohydrates, Restricting

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

Pretty, Role, Plays, Backup

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

- Robert Atkins

Loss, Going, Otherwise, Weight Loss

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

- Robert Atkins

Everyone, Would, Healthier, Junk Food

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

Medical, Potatoes, Residency, Junk Food

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

- Robert Atkins

Think, I Think, Wipe, Diabetes

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

Single, How, How Much, Obesity

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

- Robert Atkins

Power, Created, Epidemic, Obesity

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

- Robert Atkins

People, Bad, Like, Agenda

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

- Robert Atkins

Treat, Study, Practicing, Physician

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

- Robert Atkins

Fruit, Diet, Definitely, Maintenance

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

- Robert Atkins

Lost, Kept, Many, Pounds

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

Before, Patients, Saw, Pounds

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

- Robert Atkins

Risk, Disease, Controlled, Lifestyle

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

- Robert Atkins

Character, Disorder, Compulsion

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.

- Robert Atkins

Will, Made, Then, Population

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

People, Twice, Take, Gave

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

- Robert Atkins

Truth, Condition, Public, Affecting

Don't fix what's not broken.

- Robert Atkins

Broken, Fix

I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.

- Robert Atkins

World, Going, Whole, Realise

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

- Robert Atkins

Condition, Had, Which, Related

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

- Robert Atkins

Think, Going, I Think, Hungry

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

- Robert Atkins

Average, More, Than, Vegetarian

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

- Robert Atkins

Bad, See, Guy, Bad Guy

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

- Robert Atkins

Diet, Eat, Should, Named

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