Mehmet Oz Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
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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.
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You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
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I meditate and I'm passionate about it.
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A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
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We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
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Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
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No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
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I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
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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.
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If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.
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I've got so many weaknesses.
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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.
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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.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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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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Medicine has always been my calling.