Zitat des Tages von Mehmet Oz:
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.
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.
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.
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.
Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
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.
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
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.
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
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.
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.'
Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
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.
Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.
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.
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
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.
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
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.
Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
Medicine has always been my calling.
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.
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.
I get up at the same time every morning.
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've got so many weaknesses.
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.
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.
Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.
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.
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.
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.