Quotes from Mehmet Oz

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

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

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

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.

Medicine has always been my calling.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.

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.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I've got so many weaknesses.

Biology always beats will power.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

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

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

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.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

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.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

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.

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.