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No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

~Dean Ornish

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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 may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

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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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When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Actions Chronic Excuse Forgive Our Own Self-Interest Someone Stress Suffering Us

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

~Dean Ornish

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

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An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

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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.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Connecting Doctors Enabling Health Helping Improve Information Interact Internet Medical Medical Records Online Our Own People Portals Promise Records Search Show Starting Store Through Transform Us Way Wellness Whether

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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 whole-foods, plant-based diet low in refined carbohydrates.

~Dean Ornish

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: July 16th, 1953

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