American - Educator | July 16, 1953 -
Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.
Dean Ornish
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Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.
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Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
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Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.
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A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk into my favorite store on Union Street in San Francisco that sells high-quality chocolates from around the world, I feel like, well, a kid in a candy store.
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Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.
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When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.
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Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.
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The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States.
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Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United States and abroad.
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What we do eat is at least as important as what we don't eat.
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Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.
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