Food Quotes by Dean Ornish

In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.

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Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.

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What we do eat is at least as important as what we don't eat.

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What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.

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When it's good business to make healthier food, then it becomes sustainable.

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Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.

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The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

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Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you're…

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Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.

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To the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely…

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The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States.

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It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.

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As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people…

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Eating a stick of butter will raise HDL in those who are able to do so, but that does not mean that…

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In 2010, I consulted with President Clinton after his bypass grafts occluded and encouraged him to make healthy lifestyle changes including a…

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An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity,…

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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…

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If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting…

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'I resolve to eat less food' sounds good in theory, but it's often hard to sustain. And if you believe that it's…

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Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off…

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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…

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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your…

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If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to…

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I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when…

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When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.

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When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of…

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The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

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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…

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When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference…

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Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts,…

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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…

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At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's…

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If you go on a diet and feel constrained, you are more likely to drop it. But if you see your food…

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There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything…

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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut…

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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…

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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…

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How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the…

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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…

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