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Quotes About Body

Caloric Energy: Every ingredient is used to fuel our body. This energy comes in the form of calories. What we use is burned off; what we don't is stored in our body or expelled.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Food's Effect on the Body: While it's not quite as simple as saying some foods are good and some aren't, it is reasonable to say that most foods do skew one way or the other
~ Gerald M. Lemole
when it comes to how they interact with the body. For example, simple sugars (especially when consumed in large amounts) tend to wreak havoc on multiple systems, including increasing damage to blood vessels and promoting damaging (chronic) inflammation throughout the body. Other foods (both macro and micro) have a positive effect, calming down inflammation or clearing blood vessels, for example.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
beans, berries, veggies, and more. The reason we love them: They're known lymphagogues—meaning they promote the production of lymph.
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites' worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in saying something holy entered into a woman in that stinking place…full of faeces and urine, which emits discharge and menstrual blood and serves as a receptacle for men's semen.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have tied logic in knots to advance a doctrine addressing this very same point. What is the Virgin Birth, after all, but the fumbling of minds striving to deal with the indelicate realities of the body? We Jews are merely more forthright about such matters.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
~ D. H. Lawrence
When she told her doctor that she always wanted to keep her weight exactly the same as her IQ, he gave her a lecture on anorexia.
~ Wendy Morgan
I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.
~ Red Skelton
He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.
~ Joan Rivers
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
~ Thomas Mann
So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
~ Juvenal
Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.
~ Rita Rudner
A feeble body weakens the mind.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
~ Honore de Balzac
Time is the tyrant of the body.
~ Anonymous
You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping.
~ Cindy Crawford
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
~ Syrus
Her face looks as if it had worn out two bodies.
~ New England saying
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
~ Norman Cousins
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset