Quotes About Wellness

Listen to your body: Are you losing weight, feeling fine, getting results that makee you and your doctor happy? Keep it up. Are you not getting the results you want? Cut back on treats, and eat more plants.

We have a rule of thumb: The longer the shelf life of a food, the shorter the shelf life of the person eating the food! There are exceptions, of course—beans and whole grains keep forever—but it's worth bearing in mind.)

God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

In terms of helping me heal my mind and heart, Dr. Artaud is good, but music is better. She's right when she says that I hide behind music. I sometimes let sound get physical, so that it rings in my ears, and vibrates in my chest and drowns out the unhappy voices in my head. Other times, like right now, music helps me respond to my better voices, the ones that give me a squeeze to the shoulders and a gentle push ahead." -Star

Growing old, overweight and fat is not inevitable.

What is healing, but a shift in perspective?

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.

The ancient sages understood that the good life needed to be more than just survival, that perfect health and many years to enjoy it was as real a satisfaction as could be found,

Remember the motto: 'Work hard, play hard.' Regard your personal time as just as important as your work time and give as much attention to planning it as you do to planning your work. What are you working for if you don't have a personal life?

Occasionally you'll slide into crazy when an upset causes your three brains to temporarily misalign, but you won't live there permanently.

crazy starts with a misaligned brain,

All of us—even if we're strong at the core—will occasionally lose it when stress causes our brains to misalign.

If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

If you learn to view food as instructions that influence every aspect of your biology, and learn to combine that knowledge with the joy of cooking, there will be only pleasure and healing.

And a full 70 percent of American adults and 40 percent of kids are overweight.