Quotes About Wellness

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

How are you feeling, Jack?" Barbossa asked solicitously. "Ill? Slightly unwell? Horribly unwell? Close to death? How close to death?

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.

Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

The modern world is turning people into package purchasers with no control over things that can deeply affect their lives and health. We are losing touch with the world of nature and with ourselves as humans.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.