Quotes By Mehmet Oz

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

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.

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.

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 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.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

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

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.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

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

I get up at the same time every morning.

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.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Medicine has always been my calling.