Quotes by Mehmet Oz - Page 2

We know what we should and shouldn't put in our mouths, but in those times that pull on our souls, we revert to what's emotionally comfortable.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Mouths
Should
Soul
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If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Good Times
Laughing
Way
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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 / Surgeon
Challenges
Cowardly
Right Way
Status Quo
Thinking
Would Be
Challenge
Field
Pull
Quo
Status
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Home
Community
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Kitchen
Reform
Health Care True
Communities
Washington
Homes
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
East
Medicine
Thinking
Approaches
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I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Believe
Confused
People
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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. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Looks
Use
Way
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Covering
Enough
Flaws
Human Beings
Lying
Smart
Sophisticated
Beings
Lie
Ok
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I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Body
Excellence
Tools
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Packaged foods, partially hydrogenated oils and enriched flours are not your friends. Above all, remember this one word: transfats. Avoid it at all costs.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Cost
Oil
Remember
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Family
Alone
Left
Nurse
Patient
Turkeys
Allowed
Somebody
Hospital
Teaches
Turkey
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Aging
Block
Healthy
Night
Sleep
Life Your Long
Blocks
Life Long Your
Event
Prevent
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Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.
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Disease
Doctors
Medicine
Thinking
Alternative
Differently
Sharp
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Father
Husband
Thinking
Best Good Myself
Doctor
Grade
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Blend all ingredients. Drink with probiotic straws to maximize the benefits of a healthy diet and support normal absorption and assimilation of nutrients in the gut.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Benefits
Healthy
Support
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Needs
Proactive
Responsibility
Schedules
Time Your Person
Time Responsibility Your
Carve
Else
Schedule
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Kids
Pet
Overweight
People
Turns
Weight
People Who Say
Genetic
People Say
Pets
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The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Body
Cookies
Pasta
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Attempting
Claims
Deceiving
Names
Use
Deceive
False
Unfortunately
Pursuing
Several
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Care
Fixing
Health Care
Mistake
Our Time
Profession
Recognizing
Spending
Time Health Care
Mistakes
Causing
Either
Health Time Care
Patients
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People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.
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Mean
People
Profound
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Government
Joints
Together
Way
Corner
Overeat
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Alzheimer
Alzheimer's
Benefits
Coffee
Health Benefits
Parkinson
Thinking
Helps
Prevent
Twenty-Four
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Any food products made from flour, especially whole-wheat flour, form gas when broken down in the large intestine. Beware of eating these types of food before bedtime to avoid feeling inflated in the morning.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Morning
Broken
Feelings
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Sweeteners, which can be up to 300 times sweeter than natural sugar, are known to increase appetite and result in overeating. Be on the lookout for artificial sweeteners, and when possible, steer clear of them.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Increase
Natural
Sugar
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Cigarette
Cigarette Smoke
Might
Paid
Smokers
Smoking
Wrong Thing
Operate
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Journey
Creating
Hiking
Incentives
Lunch
Stairs
Walking
Workplace
Time Your Day
Naturally
Conducive
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The more decisions we make in a day, the more likely we are to make bad decisions - because deciding wears us down. You start making decisions in the morning, and by the middle of the afternoon, you're running on fumes.
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Running
Morning
Decisions We Make
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It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.
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Ocean
Meditation
Water
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One way to fuel the brain to make more decisions is to feed it carbs. So as the day goes on, you start to crave more carbs - especially women, because women tend to make more of the day-to-day decisions in our lives than men.
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Men
Brain
Decision
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We need a wholesale reevaluation of what health feels like. Most Americans don't even know what that is anymore. I want to tell people, "Listen, there are places where you can focus on your health, and it can actually be simple."
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Focus
People
Simple
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Our ancestors had to eat whenever food was around. And we're actually still hardwired the same way. The big difference is we don't have to hunt for our food. For us, "hunting" comes down to sliding the milk carton out of the way.
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Differences
Hunting
Way
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It takes around 30 minutes for your body to realize you're full, so if you're hungry when you sit down to eat, and you eat as quickly as most Americans do, you're just going to keep throwing down food before that feeling kicks in.
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Body
Feelings
Realizing
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Yoga
Morning
Want
Workout
First Thing
Likely
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Health
Barometer
Emotional
Night
Right Place
Sleep
Work Health Your
End Of The Day
Voices
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Diet
Health
Disease
Frustrated
Heart
Heart Disease
Lifestyle
People
Right Thing
Simple
Steps
Trajectory
Advanced
Do The Right Thing
Entire
Saw
The Right Thing
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Hurt
Inclination
Natural
Next Day
Patient
Work Out
Die
Work Business Me
Close
Develop
Hurts
Ideally
Natural Inclination
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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.'
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Unconditional Love
Eye
Mother
Thinking
Unconditional
Love Look Day
End Of The Day
Patients
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
Felt
Heart
Numbers
Operations
Tombstone
Better Always Done
Number
Head
Looked
Oz
Shook
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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.'
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Doctors
Eye
Specialty
Years
Doctor
Technically
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Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.
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Average
Together
Tvs
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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.
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Feelings
Grief
Heart
Stressed
Tension
Muscle
Begin
Life Great Heart
Itself
Feeling
Literally
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Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.
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Average
Brain
Numbers
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
America
Gaming
Health Care
Illness
People
Preventing
Sick
Health Money Care
Aiming
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Insurance
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As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine, is energy medicine. It's not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It's not the chemistry of our body. It's understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel.
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Medicine
Moving
Understanding
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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.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
God
Medical
Arrogance
Believe
Controlled
Grace
Heart
Patient
People
Succeed
Person
Pray
God Heart Believe
Because
Then
Get
Pretty
Only
Out
Fix
Through
Chest
Take
Saw
Surgeon
Survives
Uncontrolled
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"A hundred years ago, in this country, we were more comfortable with these discussions [of past lives, touching the spiritual world, collective unconsciousl] than we are today. I think part of that is that we have gotten addicted to the same serum that I'm taking, which is the belief that the answers are always going to be right there in front of us. And sometimes ya gotta take that leap."
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Country
Past
Spiritual
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There are really two things that drive New Year's resolution success. Number one is telling somebody about your goal. Chances are, they'll either join you in pursuing it or at least support you. Number two is to be concrete and specific. You don't want a goal like "becoming a better person," because there's no objective way to judge that. It's got to be something like "I'm going to call my mother once a week." Or "I'm going to cut my body mass index to 25." It can't be fudgeable.
Mehmet Oz / Surgeon
New Year
Cutting
Mother
Numbers
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