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If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.

In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a whole-foods, plant-based diet low in refined carbohydrates.

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It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving, meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment.

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In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.

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When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

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Just like navigating in the open sea, triangulating the information you collect from media with your doctor's advice and some common sense will help map a sound path to safety.

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If we are going to find sustainable ways of dealing with global warming, we have to base it on love and feeling good, not fear and loathing. If it's fun, then it's sustainable.

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As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use.

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Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you're eating.

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Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

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Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

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What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

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Make choices to empower yourself.

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It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.

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When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

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Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

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Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

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Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

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Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.

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If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.

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The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

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Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.

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You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a breath, and say the word out loud, emphasizing the humming sound at the end. When you come to the end of the breath, take another one and say the word again. And so on.

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Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

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There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

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Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

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Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

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What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

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Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

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The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.

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Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.

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Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

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I never give up hope.

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Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of tag - but knowing and doing are certainly different things.

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Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

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If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food choices each day as part of a spectrum, then you are more likely to feel free and empowered.

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Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.

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