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

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

" You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you. "

" 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. "

" Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. "