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" I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit - but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son's friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he's more likely to listen. "

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" A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk into my favorite store on Union Street in San Francisco that sells high-quality chocolates from around the world, I feel like, well, a kid in a candy store. "

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" A little humility goes a long way. "

" With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past? "

" Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity. "

" For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle. "

" When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life. "

" If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you. "

" The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not. "

" Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt. "

" Intimacy and community buffer stress. "

" When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival. "

" It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving, meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment. "

" The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.' "

" Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness. "

" If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food choices each day as part of a spectrum, then you are more likely to feel free and empowered. "

" Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance. "

" Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions. "

" Concepts such as 'risk factor modification' and 'prevention' are often considered boring and they may not initiate or sustain the levels of motivation needed to make and maintain comprehensive lifestyle changes. "

" When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories. "

" Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not. "

" Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day. "

" Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child. "

" When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately. "

" It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process. "

" Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy. "

" What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable. "

" Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone. "

" Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods. "

" Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem. "

" Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones. "