>>> We have some avocados dos and don'ts.
Some thing we shouldn't do is pair avocados will the time.
>> That's the good way.
Dr. Oz breaking count avocado frenzy on his show.
>> He explores positive attributes, eating and drinking in his new book "Food can fix
it."
Good see you.
>> Good to see you páhwell.
>> Natalie was just saying, you look extra fit.
Something going on?
>> I'm so happy in my life.
I think what we don't appreciate -- look, I wrote "Food can fix it" because it's not
just about the new tremendous yents but it's emotional.
If you're in a good place, it's easy to feel good.
About to have a baby.
>> Third.
It's the time in my life when I ca look back and here are all the things I've done okay,
because we beat up for all the mistakes.
We focus on those.
It's nice to kick back and say, we're blessed wherever we are in our lives.
>> You do something neat when a baby is born.
What do you do with the other siblings?
>> I love videotaping the siblings when they meet the new one.
Long after we're gone and squabbling and fighting -- imagine that first moment when you meet
your best friend.
You don't know it.
Friday and Saturday, that's what's going to be going on.
>> Congrats.
Let's talk about this book.
You say food can fix it.
What's with the avocado?
I love my avocado?
Can I not have it with everything?
>> You can.
Avocado is the star of the show today, my show.
The avocado's role in American diets has changed.
A generation ago, in some parts it was popular but increased 600% in consumption.
It's the ideal fat to have but not if you're eating other fats.
Use it instead of mayonnaise, instead of butter.
Can you cook with it.
Part of what we learn with food is that it does change the way we think about everything
in our environment.
There's nothing healthier than laughing with your friends over food.
I'm not a food Nazi.
Go out and enjoy it once in a while but you standard approach must be more clever.
Our ancestors celebrated around food, spiritual celebration, how it smells, and chicken soup
works because it has steam that mobilizes the mucus in our nose.
Our moms knew this.
I dedicate the book to the moms.
>> I love that.
>> They always knew that.
>> What's your guilty pleasure?
If you're craving something, what is it?
>> I crave dark chocolate.
My afternoon go-to is 70% coco but I put it with nuts.
Almonds is the best.
>> Dark chocolate almonds.
But my favorite is German chocolate cake.
Always adored it since I was a little boy.
>> We saw a picture with your mom there.
There's your family.
>> Look.
Is that little you?
>> Yes.
>> How moms really know the foods good for you.
I think mom's chicken soup is always what cures you.
And I think this book kind of taps into that.
You H different diet plans but it's going back to the basics.
>> We forgot along the way is that there were little insights that over time moms picked
up that worked in our lives.
Chicken soup the obvious one but it's -- there is more bacteria in our guts than in our body.
If you don't feed the gut, you won't make the hormones that you happy or study and be
more intimate with your partner.
There's a beauty and elegance to food but we forgot that.
Think about it only in the course of nutrient composition.
I love that, but medicine fell behind food.
We didn't appreciate why it worked.
We discounted it.
Now it's caught up.
Now we know exactly why these different foods affect you in a profound way.
It's real simple.
Eat foods that come out of the ground looking the way they look when you eat them.
That's the simplest -- >> It can be expensive.
I think that's the only drawback.
The cheap stuff -- the bad stuff is so cheap.
>> We make that mistake in America.
We subsidize bad foods -- I shouldn't say bad foods but foods that aren't as good for
us.
You can eat healthy food.
I'll give you an example.
Produce.
We're in Los Angeles so you can find it comfortably.
Many parts of the country, where I'm from, New York, it gets expensive.
Frozen vegetables and fruits work well.
They are harvested when ripe, have 90% of the nutrient value, don't have any wastage.
If you can eat healthy, and what I do "Food can fix it," I think the reason it's a "New
York Times" best seller is because the average person says, I can do that.
I can afford that.
I can do that today and I can feel it right this second.
>> There are so many temptations this time of the year.
It's the holidays.
>> Do it.
Why be lonely?
You want to enjoy food, celebrate around food as part of our culture.
No one wants to go on a diet around the holiday season but you can do the right things in
between those parties.
You're not lonely and isolated during the fun times but still doing your best during
other times.
I put a three-day cleanse in >> Hold tight.
We want to talk about the three-day, and according to my notes, wine is a health food.
More with the good Dr. Oz up.
>> Everything in moderation.
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>> Okay, that is cool, Dr. Oz kicked off the holiday season last night as the grand marshal
of theod Christmas parade we're talking about his new book "Food can fix it."
But look what you were given.
>> I got an applause.
The Hollywood chamber of commerce.
This is a great certificate.
Usually you get it printed out 37 what do you do with it?
I felted like az ard of oz.
And it's for toys for tots. 70 years ago a marine, a major, actually his wife came home
and said I want to give away these raggedy Anns.
There's no way to give them to kids.
Marine Corps overseas created toys for tots.
You all remember your first toy?
>> Yeah.
>> It's cool they made a way to make it happen.
Super charity and I got to be the grand marshal, thank you.
>> The proclamation, framed, up in your office somewhere.
>> Your mayor gave it to me.
I carried it on my lap in that car.
>> That's awesome you brought it us.
>> Let'salk about the book again.
Have you a three-day plan we're all like, we're doing it.
There's a 21-day plan as well but that's maybe for January when you're back on --
>> This time of year you don't want to be isolated.
The biggest survey when we do our audience, they get lonely on diets because they can't
hang with their friends.
It's the holidays, go out.
Nothing more healthy in your life than having a good time with people.
Food can be a part of that.
In between those events, it's a three-day plan, it's super straightforward.
Lean green, lots of vegetables.
The foundation, this is what I do personally, is my wife's vegetable soup, which is a very
hearty broth that you can use when you get home late at night.
Make it now, freeze it, you can break it out, warm it up as you need it.
It's the best way to quench your appetite.
Those on cleanses and detoxes starve themselves.
Most people in America are malnourished.
We eat junk.
Especially around the holidays when inteets take the nutrients.
Get your nutrients in detoxes and rest your organs.
Just eat the broth.
I don't want your liver feeling yourajor detoxifying organ.
>> Three days, anybody can do something for free days.
What about the wine?
I was teasing but is it a health food?
>> They were fighting like cats and dogs.
You thought that wrestling match earlier.
First of all, all alcohol is healthy in moderation.
Women get one glass a day, men two.
We have an enzyme in our stomach to break down alcohol.
The alcohol you drink doesn't matter much.
Red wine is 10% better than any alcohol because of the reservatol.
I like mojitas are good.
>> Doesn't that have a lot of shuger?
>> You can muddle it any way you want.
I think if you drink your alcohol -- don't be a two-fisted R or eater.
Shake people'sands keep one hand with the food or drink and the other to socialize.
>> You said the drinks to shy away from are the ones with all the mixes.
>> The things you put in your drink to camouflage it.
Coffee, you put cream and a milkshake basically.
Your mixed drink, same thing.
If you don't like the taste of the alcohol, you probably shouldn't drink it.
There's plenty of alcohol women would like.
There's all kind of new specialty alcohols where you take a vodka, gin or rum and add
something to it to give it an herbal or savory flavor.
Can you save yourself hundreds of calories for a drink, you get what you , the socialization.
Alcohol is one of the best ways to fix your body up and it's a subtle, elegant way.
It's part of human culture for a reason.
We didn't back our way into this.
>> How to fix a body up.
>> What do you think about spicy tequila?
>> I love it.
>> I knew I loved the doctor.
>> We tantalize our taste buds by pushing sugar so hard.
It's addictive.
It's like crack cocaine.
Any detox, the foundation in "Food can fix it," you don't want to go for the shuger and
salt which is designed to get you to buy more of them in processed foods.
The big manufacturers don't want to make that stuff anymore.
They'll make the stuff we want.
We voted with our pocketbooks three times a day.
This is especially now in the era of sexual harassment, if you don't put your hand up,
it's a problem.
We all put our hands up, especially women, you make a chain.
A boundary to goodness.
That's what you want.
>> What about exercise, where does that figure in?
You have to exercise a little every day as the good doctor always orders?
>> I exercise personally.
I played football in college.
I love sports.
It's been a big part of my life.
You can't lose weight exercise.
You can keep your weight down.
>> That's so interesting.
Most people for new year's is lose weight, they'll do some exercise.
>> We run for half an hour on the treadmill, you burn a piece of bread of calories.
It doesn't work that way.
You want to exercise for other reasons.
It's good for your heart.
I'm a heart specialist.
It's definitely proven.
Associated with longevity.
People that live a long time they get daily rigorous activity.
Don't do it to lose weight.
Eat the foods you love, that you adore so much, you want to have them anyway, they happen
to be good for you, that's how you lose weight.
It's jor weight loss.
I hear from folks.
Sit and cyber shopping, would he auto complete it, we're so tired.
It's not about spiritual meaning, finding a good deal, it's about why am I tired?
It's good for immune problems.
It's great to be all the health issues, the aches and pains, the energy we complain about.
The most important thing about food is respecting its sacredness.
When you get that right, you can match the science, which is where we are now in America,
you can figure out the weight loss problem pretty easily.
We're heavy in America because we're stressed primarily.
Resed out we release hoermonies, like if in were a chronic famine.
Have you to eat food and lots of it.
Food you don't even like.
Your hormone tell you to eat and store it in your belly.
When you see someone whose weight size has gotten large, they're stress they don't know
it but their hormone tells them to store it because they think there's a famine coming.
>> Good luck to Daphne.
We can't twooit see the new baby.
>> I'll send a pic.
>> The doctor's book "Food can fix it" is available now