Robert Atkins
Robert Atkins
Robert Coleman Atkinswas an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the "Atkins Nutritional Approach", or "Atkins Diet", a popular but controversial way of eating that requires close control of carbohydrate consumption, emphasizing protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables. Although the success of Atkins' diet plan, weightloss books, and lifestyle company, Atkins Nutritionals, led Time to name the doctor one of the ten most influential people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 October 1930
CountryUnited States of America
When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.
Don't fix what's not broken.
You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.
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.
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.
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.