“Everyone would be healthier if they didn’t eat junk food.”
“Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet.”
“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 think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they’re just going to have to go hungry.”
“You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.”
“It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.”
“A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.”
“Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.”
“Don’t fix what’s not broken.”
“If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I’m going to teach you otherwise.”
“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.”
“A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don’t eat.”
“How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?”
“I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.”
“I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.”
“There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.”
“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.”
“The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.”
“I don’t like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.”
“I think I can wipe out diabetes.”
“Food compulsion isn’t a character disorder; it’s a chemical disorder.”
“I didn’t realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.”
“I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.”
“I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.”
“Well, I would never do a study because I’m a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.”
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