Quotes By Mehmet Oz

Medicine has always been my calling.

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.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

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

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

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.

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.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

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 meditate and I'm passionate about it.

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.'

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 cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

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.

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.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

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

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

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

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

I've got so many weaknesses.

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