American - Educator | July 16, 1953 -
If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food choices each day as part of a spectrum, then you are more likely to feel free and empowered.
Dean Ornish
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If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you're likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
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Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.
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Concepts such as 'risk factor modification' and 'prevention' are often considered boring and they may not initiate or sustain the levels of motivation needed to make and maintain comprehensive lifestyle changes.
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Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.
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I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.
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Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
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Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of course, but what comes out of our mouth may be more important than what goes into it.
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Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.
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For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.
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Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.
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In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.
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