Quotes About Wellness

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

You deserve to have interests beyond your child.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

If you can figure out why your child is sleeping poorly and make the necessary changes, he should be sleeping well much sooner—usually within a few days, two weeks at the most.

Os gregos substituíram o Yang e o Yin por humores. O sangue, o muco, a bile amarela e a negra, a saúde dependia da harmonia disso tudo num dado momento. O médico mais importante era Galeno (c. 132-200 d.C.). Ele era um homem autoritário, com resposta pra tudo e, desse modo, estabeleceu o padrão e personalidade para nossa profissão.

Estimates are that 89 percent to 99 percent of the chemical intake into our body is from our food, and most of this is from foods high on the food chain: meat, poultry, eggs, fish, and dairy products."—John McDougall, MD

A well man at sea has little sympathy with one who is seasick; he is too apt to be conscious of a comparison favorable to his own manhood.

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.

There is good a cup of tea is when you are feeling low. Thin, and plenty of milk, and brown sugar in the crystal, in a big cup so that when your mouth is used to the heat you can drink instead of sipping. Every part of you inside you that seems to have gone to sleep comes lively again. A good friend of mine is a cup of tea, indeed. When

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

Parents are told to turn off the TV and restrict video game time, but we hear little about what the kids should do physically during their non-electronic time. The usual suggestion is organized sports. But consider this: The obesity epidemic coincides with the greatest increase in organized children's sports in history.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life.

He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don't you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don't you shut the hell up? he thought.

Stay sane inside insanity.

The chemistry of their roots and the perfumes their leaves pump out change when we're near. . . . When you feel good after a walk in the woods, it may be that certain species are bribing you. So many wonder drugs have come from trees, and we haven't yet scratched the surface of the offerings. Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

Trees know when we're close by. The chemistry of their roots and the perfumes their leaves pump out change when we're near. . . . When you feel good after a walk in the woods

Of course I'm ill, I'm alive aren't I?

We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it.

Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.

Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.

If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!

One should never underestimate the healing power of music.