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
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
A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you dont eat. – Robert Atkins
I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet. – Robert Atkins
It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they dont know than they are about how theyre going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. – John Podhoretz