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" Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery. "

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" Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame. "

" Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. "

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" Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres. "

" We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom. "

" 'I resolve to eat less food' sounds good in theory, but it's often hard to sustain. And if you believe that it's all willpower, then you're likely to be upset with yourself if you don't succeed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy. "

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Become

" Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator. "

" A little humility goes a long way. "

" While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other. "

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World

" What we do eat is at least as important as what we don't eat. "

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

" Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower. "

" 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. "

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

" In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on. "

" In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession. "

" When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own. "

" What matters most is your overall way of eating and living. "

" What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable. "

" Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of course, but what comes out of our mouth may be more important than what goes into it. "

" There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly. "

" Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for. "

" There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly. "

" All divisions are man-made. "

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