Famous Quotes

"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."

Robert Atkins on Diet

More quotes about Diet

• "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."

  Mae West on Diet

• "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

  Jim Davis on Diet

• "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

  Orson Welles on Diet

• "No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."

  Maimonides on Diet

• "Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."

  Linford Christie on Diet

More quotes by Robert Atkins

• "Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet."

• "A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat."

• "I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet."

• "How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?"

• "You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable."