14 Quotes & Sayings By Mehmet Oz

Dr. Oz is a board-certified internist and cardiologist, as well as a nationally prominent medical expert, educator and television host. He is the host of The Dr. Oz Show, which airs on over 15 different TV networks Read more

Dr. Oz has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, CBS Morning News, Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, CBS This Morning and many other programs. He has authored 11 bestselling books, including his latest book The Power of Positive Thinking: How to Get the Life You Want (and Have), which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.

His books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 45 countries worldwide.

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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. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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Biology always beats will power. Mehmet Oz
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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 survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. Mehmet Oz
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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
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I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast. Mehmet Oz
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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. Mehmet Oz
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The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. Mehmet Oz