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If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Mehmet Oz

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Mehmet Oz
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 11
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Cleveland
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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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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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It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.
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Rather than munching on a bag of potato chips, stick to fresh fruit and veggies.
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I meditate and I'm passionate about it.
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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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Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.
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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.
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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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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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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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Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
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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.
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I get up at the same time every morning.
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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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Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.
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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
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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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