Mehmet Oz Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I get up at the same time every morning.

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• Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

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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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• 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 have to pay more money on them.

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• Biology always beats will power.

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• Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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.’

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Mehmet Oz (58)

Birth:	11th June, 1960
Nationality:	American, Turkish
Profession:	Anchor, Author, Surgeon, Television Presenter

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