Mehmet Oz

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don’t think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, ‘I’m here for you. I’m going to make sure this works out.’

Mehmet Oz

One way to fuel the brain to make more decisions is to feed it carbs. So as the day goes on, you start to crave more carbs – especially women, because women tend to make more of the day-to-day decisions in our lives than men.

Mehmet Oz

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.

Mehmet Oz

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

Mehmet Oz

Sweeteners, which can be up to 300 times sweeter than natural sugar, are known to increase appetite and result in overeating. Be on the lookout for artificial sweeteners, and when possible, steer clear of them.

Mehmet Oz

The more decisions we make in a day, the more likely we are to make bad decisions – because deciding wears us down. You start making decisions in the morning, and by the middle of the afternoon, you’re running on fumes.

Mehmet Oz

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.

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 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

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

Mehmet Oz