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Dean Ornish
American
Educator
Born:
Jul 16
,
1953
Better
Food
Good
Health
People
You
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I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
Dean Ornish
Work
Important
Big
Research
Think
Admirer
Some
He
Most
Done
Really
Agree
Things
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
Dean Ornish
Beautiful
Me
Valid
Scientific
Verifiable
Scientific Theory
Predictive
Theory
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Dean Ornish
Time
Good
Prevail
Science
Good Ideas
Over
New
Ideas
Although
New Ideas
Scientists
Often
Anyone
Process
Theories
Resistant
In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.
Dean Ornish
Health
Good
Losing
Important
Lose
Way
Those
General
Rather
Compromise
Good Thing
Weight
Overweight
Than
May
Your
Who
Enhances
Thing
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
Science
Better
Power
Else
Approaches
Know
Scientific
Answer
Am
Scientist
Questions
Up
Than
Anybody
Anybody Else
Anything
Them
Many
Grown
Grown-Up
Medical
Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.
Dean Ornish
Work
Time
Day
Challenges
Every Day
School
Face
Every
Lunch
Obesity
Physical
Physical Activity
Rushed
Budget
Budget Cuts
Periods
Lines
Tests
Educators
Front
Childhood
Front Lines
Personnel
Cuts
Decrease
Activity
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
Dean Ornish
Wisdom
Truth
Science
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Monopoly
No-One
Advance
May
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Just like navigating in the open sea, triangulating the information you collect from media with your doctor's advice and some common sense will help map a sound path to safety.
Dean Ornish
You
Doctor
Safety
Path
Will
Advice
Sense
Collect
Some
Open
Like
Sound
Just
Common
Information
Common Sense
Your
Sea
Help
Map
Media
Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.
Dean Ornish
Respect
Challenges
Humble
Guidance
Advice
Evidence
About
More
Lifestyle
Also
Accessible
Providing
Behind
Medical
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
You
Car
Drive
Elon Musk
Visionary
Excited
Powerful
Global
Global Warming
Make
Reduce
Tesla
Done
Warming
Planet
Show
Cool
Reasons
Fun
Cooler
Helps
In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on.
Dean Ornish
Experience
People
Changes
Our
Comprehensive
Lifestyle
Make
Insulin
Reduce
Ace
Medications
When we are angry with someone, we empower the person we hate the most in that moment to make us stressed out or even sick. That's not smart.
Dean Ornish
Angry
Hate
Smart
Sick
Out
Someone
Most
Empower
Make
Person
Us
Moment
Even
Stressed
Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.
Dean Ornish
Life
Age
Simple
Long
Become
Control
Live
Our
More
Terms
How
Quickly
Get
Die
Gets
Cells
Ends
Then
Your
There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Dean Ornish
Truth
Good
You
Nothing
Bad
Could
Simplistic
Often
Anything
View
Farther
Raises
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
You
Anger
Pressure
Feelings
Own
Both
Well
His
Blood
Friend
Blood Pressure
Close
Close Friend
May
Whereas
Loving
Lower
Your
Raise
Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.
Dean Ornish
Health
Needs
Healthy
Living
Other
Ways
Rather
Physicians
Primarily
Health Reform
Surgical
Provide
Than
Reform
Patients
Meaningful
Teach
Incentives
Professionals
Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.
Dean Ornish
Government
Corporations
Those
Tend
Supposed
Institutions
Perpetuate
Often
Expense
Whether
Themselves
Large
Multinational
Serve
Medicare
Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
Dean Ornish
Health
People
Internet
Care
Power
Evident
More
Health Care
Than
Improving
Lives
Nowhere
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
Guidance
Internet
Power
Out
Also
Sort
Without
Limitation
Access
How
Provides
Providing
Information
Large
Large Amounts
Credible
Amount
In business, when you can meet an unmet need that is this primal, even meeting it in a superficial way can create a multi-billion-dollar business - e.g., the chat rooms in AOL when it first came out, or the lounges in Starbucks, or the billion people who are on Facebook - even though these are hardly the most intimate of life experiences.
Dean Ornish
Life
You
Business
Facebook
People
First
Meet
Meeting
Intimate
Way
Though
Out
Life Experiences
Superficial
Chat
Primal
Most
Came
Experiences
Rooms
Create
Billion
Who
Even
Starbucks
Hardly
Need
Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.
Dean Ornish
Blame
Changes
Changing
Our
Lifestyle
Genes
Knowing
Empower
Motivating
Very
Often
For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.
Dean Ornish
Health
Lifestyle
Studied
Tied
How
Much
Career
Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.
Dean Ornish
Food
You
Bad
Eating
Make
Does
Person
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
Love
Wisdom
Time
Needs
World
Compassion
Increasingly
Badly
Survive
May
Us
Help
When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.
Dean Ornish
Eyes
Closed
Few
Meditation
Spending
Out
Minutes
Something
Feel
Feels
Like
Well
Exercise
Doing
May
Whereas
Little
Really
Your
If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to make bigger changes in diet and lifestyle than someone who just wants to lose a few pounds and is otherwise healthy. If you just want to lower your cholesterol, weight or blood pressure, begin by making moderate changes.
Dean Ornish
You
Heart
Cancer
Pressure
Healthy
Lose
Few
Changes
Otherwise
High
Someone
Risk
Prevent
Lifestyle
Pounds
Weight
Recurrence
Make
Making
Reverse
Blood
Blood Pressure
Heart Disease
Begin
Than
Trying
Disease
Moderate
Diet
Just
Want
Bigger
Wants
Lower
Your
Cholesterol
Who
Need
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