When it's good business to make healthier food, then it becomes sustainable. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
To the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you're… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
'I resolve to eat less food' sounds good in theory, but it's often hard to sustain. And if you believe that it's… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Eating a stick of butter will raise HDL in those who are able to do so, but that does not mean that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
A little dark chocolate in small amounts often helps lift me out of those blue moments. When I walk into my favorite… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Not everything that lowers HDL is bad for you. If you change from a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet to a healthy low-fat, low-cholesterol… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Although many people believe that the primary emphasis of my work is about diet, it's not. What we eat is important, of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure. — Dean Ornish Copy Share
No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth,… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all… — Dean Ornish Copy Share
Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for. — Dean Ornish Copy Share
