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Daphne Oz is an author recognized for her books on health, wellness, and parenting. Born on February 17, 1986, she has established herself as a wellness advocate and has penned several books that have resonated with readers.

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“After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

Home Parent College Lessons Hardest Guidance

Book:The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

Source: The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

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

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“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.”

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“My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.”

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Book:The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

Source: The Dorm Room Diet: The 10-Step Program for Creating a Healthy Lifestyle Plan That Really Works

“I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.”

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“I am inspired by working moms. Mothers who somehow balance the demands of their many lives - professional, familial, personal, and interior - and still manage to make time to have fun and invest in themselves! This is a huge challenge that I look forward to taking on.”

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

My Favorite Favorites Things

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“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.”

Looks I Can Can Do

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

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“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.”

Way Book Action Turns Information Internet Access

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“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.”

People Want Helping Beautiful Fun Vehicle Dots

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs I Can Lovers Standards Colleagues

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“If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.”

Ifs Trying Facts Behavior Creating Standards Expectations Balls Court

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

My Own Successful Behavior Proactive

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“Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!”

Medicine Forgotten

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“Make sure you eat whole foods that are good for your entire body. This doesn't mean that you can't enjoy your food or make room for plenty of indulgences. But your conscious goal has to be to eat for long term health and what you do most of the time is what really counts.”

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“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.”

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

Knows Our Family

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“A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.”

People Trying Self Might Example Acceptance Be Good Core Pushing Best Self Pushing Each Other

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“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.”

Giving Trying Important Growing Up Growing My Family Being The Best

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“You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.”

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“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.”

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“The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.”

Long Made Fighting Term Quality Generations Effects Source Battle Long Term Transparency Our Generation

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

Needs Demand Genetically Modified Genetically Modified Food

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“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.”

Ifs Trying Facts Problem Source Healthy Reform Healthcare Symptoms Healthy Food

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

Ifs Choices Easy Healthy Affordable Healthy Food

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“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.”

Want Writing Reason Growing Share Personal Experiences

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“I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.”

“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.”

Young Powerful Growing Up Growing Overweight

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

Ifs Today Fun Crisis Live Your Life Preventing Midlife Midlife Crisis

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“I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?”

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“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.”

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“Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.”

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

Ifs Answers Walking Gym

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

Shows Inspiration Moving Brain Blood New Things Drains Stationary

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

Moving Courses Keep Moving Forward Motion

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“Don't get stuck and don't worry.”

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“I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.”

I Can Knowing Wonderful Right Now Husband Supposed To Be Family And Friends I Smile Doing Right Respect Me Wonderful Husband

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“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.”

People Helping Healthy My Family And Love Woods Yesterday Love Each Other Healthy And Happy

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“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.”

Trying Persons Different Kids Meals Palate

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“Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.”

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

Sun Diets Robbing Food Love

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“In addition to that, having the items I needed to foster the breastfeeding process and give me an opportunity to bond with my baby in this way was something that I felt was so important in my life and my experience as a first-time mom. I love that I am able to play a role in giving that joy and support to the moms we will be helping.”

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Born: February 17, 1986
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Quotes: 54

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