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" 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. "

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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. "

Mehmet Oz

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. "

" When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging. "

" Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. "

" In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. "

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

" I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. "

" 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.' "

" A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true. "

" I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. "

" Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. "

" Biology always beats will power. "

" It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument. "

" I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef. "

" There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves. "

" 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. "

" I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself. "

" Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. "

" I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. "

" 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. "

Mehmet Oz

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" I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. "

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

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

" If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company. "