Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly.