Quotes About Wellness

I'm getting better. I'm improving. My health is coming back," those words began to create a new image on the inside. Before long, they started seeing themselves strong, healthy, and whole.

I am blessed. I am strong. I am healthy.

Psychiatrists have enough work to do without expanding the boundaries of the disorders into the world of the "worried well" or of people going through a "bad patch.

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

She was sipping some dreadful vegetable smoothie concoction that looked like minced caterpillars.

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

The more I learn, the clearer it becomes to me that blaming fatness for sickness is a view unsupported by scientific literature.

And the best way to detoxify is to eat enough, sleep enough, and shed stress.

That can reduce inflammation, rebuild tissue, and normalize immunity, whereas getting insufficient quality sleep will have the opposite effect.

Numerous studies show that chronic stress lowers metabolic rate, decreases immunity, and increases inflammation. Shedding chronic stress has the opposite effect, improving health in every way.

Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

When they added up the figures, John and other scientists found that being disconnected from the people around you had the same effect on your health as being obese—which was, until then, considered the biggest health crisis the developed world faced.

The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.

child abuse is as likely to cause drug addiction as obesity is to cause heart disease.

There's a scientific debate about the precise scale of our sleep loss, but the National Sleep Foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20 percent in just a hundred years.

One friend told me that she always knew her depression was lifting when she felt her sense of time expanding again

Disempowerment," Michael told me, "is at the heart of poor health"—physical, mental, and emotional.

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

The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety.

We are living, she has come to believe, in a culture where people are not "getting the connections that they need in order to be healthy human beings," and that is why we can't put down our smartphones, or bear to log off. We tell ourselves that we live so much of our lives in cyberspace because when we are there, we are connected—we are plugged into a swirling party with billions of people.

Their business model," he says, "is screen time, not life time.

How could I still be depressed when I was taking antidepressants? I was doing everything right, and yet something was still wrong. Why?

If you put shampoo into a car engine, you're not going to scratch your head when the thing conks out,' [Dale Pinnock] said. Yet every day, all over the Western world, we are putting into our bodies substances 'which are so far removed from what was intended for human fuel.