Daphne Oz Quotes

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

I do what I do because my favorite thing is to learn.

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.

I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.

I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

Fun for me is to take what I learn and teach others in a way that is accessible and applicable in their own lives.

We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.

I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.

Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.

I have been very, very lucky because I have my health, a wonderful husband, family, and friends, and I get to do what I love.

More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.

Don't get stuck and don't worry.

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.