Quotes About Wellness

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

I'll cook a batch of brown rice or quinoa and keep it in the fridge, so when I get hungry, I can easily dress it up with olive oil, lemon, and salt and pepper, and then add veggies.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Nutrition is 150 per cent of the bodybuilding formula. It's that important.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.

I love working out at AKT. I will jump into one of my instructor's classes, hold a secret session with friends, or jam it out with my team, five days per week, 60-90 minutes each day.

To ensure maximal fiber intake and to identify true whole-grain products, do the 'flip-and-check.' Flip to the nutrition facts label and list of ingredients on the back, and check that the product has at least three grams of fiber per serving and that whole grains is first on the ingredients list.

Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.

Look, my body fat percentage has maybe gone up a percent or two, but it's not gone up that much at all. I would say a lot of it has been attributed to muscle. It's a lot of muscle.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

With eating well, there's a perception that it's depressing. People think they're just going to meditate and eat kale.

Percussion is so good for me!

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all.

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I'm perfectly healthy.