01c. 1953 ADWhether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
02c. 1953 ADIf we can reach populations in developing countries and help them understand the value of their indigenous diet and lifestyles rather than copying ours, perhaps we can reverse the exponential rise in cardiovascular disease that is plaguing them.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
03c. 1953 ADNot 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 diet, your HDL levels may stay the same or even decrease because there is less need for it. When you have less garbage, you need fewer garbage trucks to remove it, so your body may make less HDL.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
04c. 1953 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1953 ADWhether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
06c. 1953 ADReimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
07c. 1953 ADI am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
08c. 1953 ADLet's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
09c. 1953 ADNo one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
11c. 1953 ADTrust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
12c. 1953 ADWith everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?Dean Ornish / quote ↗
14c. 1953 ADRediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
15c. 1953 ADIf you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
16c. 1953 ADLifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer, especially in those carrying the BRCA mutation.Dean Ornish / quote ↗
