Quotes About Wellness

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. — THOMAS EDISON

The Brain Sync: Improve Your Mind as You Age

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

A person who is sixty and healthy almost surely will live many more years. But sixty is about the age when people stop being surprised if you look old or feel sick or drop dead.

Consciously connected breathing is one of the most efficient and accessible means for deliberate re-entry into the physical body.

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote

red meat that has been processed into bacon, bologna, hot dogs, sandwich meats, and other products with added salt is best avoided altogether.

the team that had found that people could beat the salt habit simply by refraining from salty foods long enough for their taste buds to return to a normal level of sensitivity.

the biggest deliverers of saturated fat—the type of fat doctors worry about—are cheese and red meat

Noting that people were getting on average 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day, the association urged Americans to cut back. Moderately active women should get no more than 5 teaspoons of sugar—

One of the sanitarium's earliest guests was a marketing whiz named C. W. Post, who took the baths, ate the meals, and, inspired by what he experienced there, eventually went into business for himself.

On average, we consume 71 pounds of caloric sweeteners each year. That's 22 teaspoons of sugar, per person, per day.

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

drink only enough to satisfy your thirst. Appropriate here is Tim Noakes' conclusion in his book Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports (page 353): "Your body will tell you what it needs if you just listen.

Stay hydrated but do not flush the electrolytes from your body by excessive drinking. You should drink only enough water to maintain the same, normal output of urine you normally experience.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

High-quality food is better for your health.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

you don't stop laughing when you grown old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

When you are injured, the vet is the human best equipped to patch you up. When you lack any specific injury, the vet will gladly provide one, by poking you with needles, sticking thermometers into wholly inappropriate places, and shoving a brightly lit funnel into your ear in order to read your innermost thoughts.

to stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities.