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
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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.
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.
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 eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.