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Intimacy is healing.
I never give up hope.
All divisions are man-made.
Make choices to empower yourself.
A little humility goes a long way.
I'm first and foremost a scientist.
Intimacy and community buffer stress.
Awareness is the first step in healing.
Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.
In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.
Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.
Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.
What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.
Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.
Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.
If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.
Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.
People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.
What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.
Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.
Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.
Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.
When it's good business to make healthier food, then it becomes sustainable.
Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.
I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.
Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.
Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.
For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.
Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.
The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States.
Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.
Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.
Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy.
Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.
There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.
We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.
When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.