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American - Educator Born: July 16, 1953

An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends.

Family Heart Home Eating

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

People Quality Survival Connections

I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.

Time You Power Believe

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 by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

Heart Think Lifestyle Diabetes

When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.

Family Time Long Friends

Awareness is the first step in healing.

Step Healing First Step Awareness

Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.

Stop Lifestyle Slow Changes

Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

Heart Lifestyle Small Diet

Make choices to empower yourself.

Yourself Choices Empower Make

If I eat mindlessly while watching television, reading, or talking with someone else, I can go through an entire meal without tasting the food, without even noticing that I've been eating. The plate is empty but I didn't enjoy the food - I had all of the calories and little of the pleasure.

Food Eating Enjoy Reading

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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 calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.

Food You Eating Important

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

Love Wisdom War Time

Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education.

Education Medical Practice Medicine

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

Water Food Community Need

Whether 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.

Health People Internet Medical

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.

Life Day Health Food

Intimacy is healing.

Healing Intimacy

When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there.

Family Good You Feel

Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.

Free Help Disease Resources

A little humility goes a long way.

Long Humility Way Long Way

Your genes are not your fate... if you change your lifestyle, you change your genes.

Change You Fate Lifestyle

The choices you make each day in your diet and lifestyle have a direct influence on how your genetic predisposition is expressed - for better and for worse. You're only as old as your genes, but how your genes are expressed may be modified by exercise, diet and lifestyle choices much more than had previously been believed - and more quickly.

Day You Better Lifestyle

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.

Change Health Fear People

Trust 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.

Trust Hurt Healing Meaning

Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.

Health Eggs Bacon Alas

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

You Enjoy Giving Better

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