"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

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"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."

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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