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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.
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Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.
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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.
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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.
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Eating a stick of butter will raise HDL in those who are able to do so, but that does not mean that butter is good for your heart. It isn't.
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In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.
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Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.
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Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you're eating.
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If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you're likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
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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.
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Concepts such as 'risk factor modification' and 'prevention' are often considered boring and they may not initiate or sustain the levels of motivation needed to make and maintain comprehensive lifestyle changes.
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Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.
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I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.
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Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
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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.
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Intimacy is healing.
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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.
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Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.
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For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.
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Nobody wants to feel controlled or treated like a child.
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In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.
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Eating bad food does not make you a bad person.
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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.
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Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
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Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.
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Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.
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Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.
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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.
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The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States.
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Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United States and abroad.
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It costs less to eat and live more healthfully. Walking, loving, meditating, and quitting smoking are free and require no special equipment.
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What we do eat is at least as important as what we don't eat.
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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.
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Make choices to empower yourself.
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Physical exercise is a great way to discharge stressful feelings that accumulate during the day.
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Intimacy and community buffer stress.
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When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.
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You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a breath, and say the word out loud, emphasizing the humming sound at the end. When you come to the end of the breath, take another one and say the word again. And so on.
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To the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely to look better, feel better, lose weight and gain health.
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When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.
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There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
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Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.
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I'm first and foremost a scientist.
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Alas, bacon and eggs are not health foods.
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Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.
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But she's ditched Dean!
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Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.
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