Quotes About Wellness

The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

With insulin, the stone was rolled away, and diabetes became a matter of the quality of life, not the speed of death.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

1. Eat within one hour of waking. 2. Eat like a king or queen at breakfast, a prince or princess at lunch, and a pauper at dinner. 3. Take your last bite three hours before bedtime

It's okay not to be okay.

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

What counts is how many years you get before losing your marbles,

Red pepper, when eaten early in the day, decreases food intake later in the day.

To help curb hunger and avoid binge eating, drink a glass or two of water before you eat.

eat a little fat twenty-five minutes before your meal (70 calories or so of fat in the form of six walnut halves, twelve almonds, or twenty peanuts), you'll stimulate a chemical that will both communicate with your brain and slow your stomach from emptying to keep you feeling full. (It takes about twenty-five minutes to kick in and takes about 65 calories of fat to stimulate.)

Four studies, all reported in the last five years, have found what many suspected all along: that a positive attitude makes a large difference in how long and how well you live.

In fact, behavioral choices account almost entirely for a person's overall health and longevity by age sixty. The older you are, the more your choices determine how long and how well you live.

simple things like taking an aspirin a day, drinking a glass of red wine with dinner, and taking the right vitamins in the proper amounts are quick, easy, and painless ways to make your cardiovascular system healthier.

Looking younger starts with not smoking and limiting unprotected sun exposure. But try as you might to protect your skin, it is programmed to thin at a rate of one percent per year after age 30.

When you feel hungry, drink a glass or two of water first, to see if that's really what your body wants.

Your body tries to remove free radicals via antioxidants, which try to bind the free radicals up (as if they were in handcuffs) and haul them out of your cells and then out of your body. That's one of the reasons blueberries and exercise are so good for you—they are two very powerful ways to increase your in-cell antioxidants. Regularly drinking black coffee is another.

Walk thirty minutes a day and build a little muscle. When you lose some weight, your cells become more sensitive and responsive to leptin.

Eat more food early in the day and less later on. Try to eat only in a seven- or eight-hour window. Eat only when the sun is up and eat 75 percent of your calories seven or more hours before your planned bedtime.

is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Noise harms your body and boils your brain. The word "noise" derives from the Latin word nausea.

The Indian writer Jiddu Krishnamurti has been quoted as saying, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.