I don’t like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

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 think I can wipe out diabetes.

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

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they’re just going to have to go hungry.

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage.

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.

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...

Don’t fix what’s not broken.

Well, I would never do a study because I’m a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet.

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.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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

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...

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.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I’m going to teach you otherwise.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

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

I didn’t realise I was going to be fighting the whole world.

Food compulsion isn’t a character disorder; it’s a chemical disorder.