O, The Oprah Magazine Gets Its First Male Cover Star

O, The Oprah Magazine’s January issue is extra special.  It marks the first time a male has been featured on the cover.

Dr. Oz  takes the top honor by joining Oprah on the January 2012 cover as the fourth co-cover star and the very first man.  The theme of the month is FRESH START and Dr. Oz feels confident to help O readers thrive in the New Year.

Check out some highlights below from the interview:

O, The Oprah Magazine – on newsstands nationwide on Tuesday, December 13 – includes “The O Interview” where Dr. Oz chats candidly with Oprah on his search for balance, the ups and downs of marriage, the real reasons we gain weight and more- see below for a sneak-peek.

Dr. Oz also unveils his 28-Day Plan to successfully achieve a fresh start in 2012, sharing 28 meaningful yet simple and manageable ways to boost your mental and physical well-being including eating popcorn, taking the RIGHT vitamins, cleaning out your pantry and clipping on a pedometer.  For a  preview of the 10-page in-book feature, check out the link below:

http://www.oprah.com/health/Dr-Oz-on-How-to-Renew-Your-Body-Mind-and-Soul

New Year’s Resolution Success:
OPRAH: I love the idea of 28 days of health. But if there were just one thing people did differently to improve their lives in 2012, what would it be?
DR. OZ: Well, there are really two things that drive New Year’s resolution success. Number one is telling somebody about your goal. Chances are, they’ll either join you in pursuing it or at least support you. Number two is to be concrete and specific. You don’t want a goal like “becoming a better person,” because there’s no objective way to judge that… If you’re concrete, I’ll bet the chance that you’ll be succeeding by summer is 50 percent. Those are definitely odds worth taking.

Passion for Surgery:
DR. OZ: Thursdays I’m still there, and I go diligently. But yes, I miss it. Especially the normalcy. You get to just be a heart surgeon, and it’s a very Zen moment to hold the human heart… And I love the fact that you can have a one-on-one with a person, hold their hands, look them in their eyes, and connect. That’s what I try to do on the show. So surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

Lisa Oz’s Book, Us:
OPRAH: What did you learn from the book? I learned that y’all have a very hot sex life!
DR. OZ: That’s how most men connect-in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one. But what I learned most from the book is that Lisa is all about having a relationship with me. I would not be sitting here having this conversation if it weren’t for Lisa. It was her idea to do the Second Opinion show, which is where you and I met. It was her idea to do the books that gave rise to that show. It was her vision early on to create the kind of show we’re doing now. She had a much larger vision for me than I did for myself.
OPRAH: I usually say that about God! You say it about Lisa.

Creating Balance:
OPRAH: Well, if I may give you some advice, even though I’m not taking it myself: You’ve
got to make a conscious decision that you’ll create balance.
DR. OZ: Why haven’t you?
OPRAH: Because the show became the great love of my life-not just the mistress. It filled everything. With each year, as you’ll see, you have to keep raising the bar. Right now you are the leader of all the talk shows. In order to maintain that position, you have to keep reinventing. It becomes all-consuming. So you’ve got to decide where that fits into your life and where the rest of your life folds in.

Being in the Tabloids:
OPRAH: Have you and Lisa been in the tabloids yet?
DR. OZ: Not really. So far, you’re the only one I’ve had an affair with!
OPRAH: Well, that makes sense because Gayle’s having an affair with Stedman [ laughs].

Joyless Eater:
DR. OZ: Frank Bruni, who used to be the restaurant critic for The New York Times, once
wrote that I was the most joyless eater he’d ever seen…I was eating walnuts soaked in water. I grew up partly in Istanbul, where my grandfather had walnut trees. I’d crack open the walnuts on the pavement and eat the moist nuts. But when you buy walnuts in a store, they’re dried out and have a little bitterness. If you soak them in water, that bitterness goes away.

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