As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use. -Dean Ornish Diet
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. -Dean Ornish War
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. -Dean Ornish Fear
One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet. -Dean Ornish Car
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. -Dean Ornish Diet
Reimbursement is a major determinant of how medicine is practiced. When reimbursement changes, so do medical practice and medical education. -Dean Ornish Medical
The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not. -Dean Ornish Power
One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet. -Dean Ornish Cool
I 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 Medical
Knowledge and engagement are a powerful antidote to forces that often work against our kids being healthy. -Dean Ornish Knowledge
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. -Dean Ornish Health
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. -Dean Ornish Good
With 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 Trust
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. -Dean Ornish Wisdom
If 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 Anger
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -Dean Ornish Food
Lifestyle 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 Alone
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. -Dean Ornish Diet
When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear. -Dean Ornish Fear
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. -Dean Ornish Food
Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance. -Dean Ornish Medical
