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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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.
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.
Most fats are healthy, but those called trans-fats, such as margarine, fall into that category.
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.
I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.
I didn't realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.
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.
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.
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.
There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.
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?