Quotes About Wellbeing

You eat slower. Healthier. Chopsticks're good for you.

measures like GDP per person give only a rough reflection of the overall level of wellbeing of an individual or a nation. But for sustainable development we are interested in raising human wellbeing, not just in raising income, still less in a mad race for more riches for people who are already rich. Therefore, it is important to ask how we can best measure wellbeing (or life satisfaction) beyond GDP per capita.

Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

I work out sort of moderately.

The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.

A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.

Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.

Evidence is overwhelming that, after switching to agriculture, human stature decreased, a very reliable indicator of a decline in overall wellbeing. People fell sick more often because of higher population density and because pathogens jumped from domesticated animals to humans. The quality of nutrition declined, as is abundantly documented in ancient bones and teeth.

Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they're essential to our wellbeing.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It's been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.

View health as an investment, not an expense.

But, then, he's a doctor, and part of his job is to tell me to cut back on what I like to eat and drink.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

You see a lot of guys going downhill as they get older, but I'm going the other way, and that's because of diet.

As far as the diet goes, I've always eaten healthy.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

the feeling of control—whether real or illusory—is one of the wellsprings of mental health.

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Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'