“I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.”
Mehmet Oz“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”
Mehmet Oz“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.”
Mehmet Oz“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.”
Mehmet Oz“The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.”
Mehmet Oz“No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.”
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.”
Mehmet Oz“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.”
Mehmet Oz“I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.”
Mehmet Oz“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.”
Mehmet Oz“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.”
Mehmet Oz