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" Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature. "

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" I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. "

" Your waist size should not be more than half your height. "

" Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. "

" I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband. "

" The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. "

" If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. "

" Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. "

" You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life. "

" People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic. "

" Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. "

" At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. "

" I get up at the same time every morning. "

" We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. "

" Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. "

" You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you. "

" The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. "

" I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking. "

" No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. "

" What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. "

" I meditate and I'm passionate about it. "

" You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life. "

" I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone. "

" We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. "

" In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient. "

" I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens. "

" We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society. "

" I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. "

" My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.' "

" True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal. "

" Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports. "