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
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
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.
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
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.
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 think I can wipe out diabetes.
I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.
There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.
You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.