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.

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.

Don't fix what's not broken.

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.

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

There are many, many people who have lost 100 pounds and kept it off.

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.

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

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

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

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

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

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

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

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

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

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

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

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

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.

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.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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

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

A diet should be named after what you do eat not what you dont eat.

If you believe that weight loss requires self deprivation Im going to teach you otherwise.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I've got a pretty good appetite right now.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.