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Mehmet Oz

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Mehmet Oz
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 11
Academic
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Medical Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
Dr. Oz
Doctor Oz
Mehmet Cengiz Öz
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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.
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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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It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
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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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I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
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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.
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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.
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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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I get up at the same time every morning.
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Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.
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Rather than munching on a bag of potato chips, stick to fresh fruit and veggies.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.
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I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.
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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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Make the driving force in your life love.
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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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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.
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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.
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