Quotes by Mehmet Oz

About Mehmet Oz:

Mehmet Cengiz Öz is a Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, author and television personality. He is supportive of alternative medicine and has been criticized by physicians, government officials and publications, including Popular Science and The New Yorker, for giving non-scientific advice.
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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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Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

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I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

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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.

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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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I've got so many weaknesses.

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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 s...

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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

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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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Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ha...

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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.

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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.

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No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameMehmet Oz
  • DescriptionAmerican medical doctor
  • BornNovember 6, 1960
  • CountryTurkey
  • ProfessionAuthor; Scientist; Surgeon