Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle. — 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
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
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The biological mechanisms that control our health and well-being are much more dynamic - for better and for worse - than most… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care. — 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
Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually… — 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 understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who… — 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
Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way… — 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
