Thomas Sydenham Quotes

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there's no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.

It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

I accepted the role of spokesman for Lipitor because I am dedicated to the battle against heart disease, which killed my father at age 62 and motivated me to become a medical doctor.

A woman is as young as her knees.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

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.