Quotes By Mehmet Oz

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

Biology always beats will power.

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.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

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

I get up at the same time every morning.

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.

Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program.

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.

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.

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.

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

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.

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

Medicine has always been my calling.

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.

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.

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

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.

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

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.

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

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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