Quotes About Wellness

I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

In 2012 a landmark German study found that vegetarians are considerably more likely to have mental disorders than people who eat meat.

vegetarianism perpetuates (or even exacerbates) mental disorders.

Habitually barefoot societies have lower rates of just about every major foot problem—flat feet, athlete's foot, plantar warts, plantar fasciitis, bunions, corns—many of which are practically nonexistent.

A holistic, habitat-based approach to human health is long overdue.

Shifting to a low-sugar, lower carbohydrate diet is particularly important for people looking to lose weight or repair their metabolism, and it seems prudent for everyone.

An increasing number of devices allow people to collect data about themselves: blood sugar levels, the number of steps taken each day, and sleep cycles. It won't be long before checking blood work will only require a relatively inexpensive device that plugs into a smartphone, not a visit to the doctor's office. The cost of sequencing the genome continues to drop, and soon it will be as unremarkable as taking a fingerprint.

Liver is one of the most famously healthy foods in the world: according to a Chinese proverb, "Eat liver, fortify your own liver";

Excessive consumption of fructose contributes to the development of fatty liver disease, kidney stones, and gout.

There's no one else who can make the daily decisions—eating well, exercising regularly—that deliver lifelong health. In other words, being healthy is a "do-it-yourself" project. Seen in that light, we are all biohackers. Yet too many people entrust their day-to-day decisions to authority figures—the tools, as it were—on the assumption that the experts actually know what they're talking about.

as scientifically sound health advice, "Everything in moderation" is as nourishing as white bread. The very people who need to eat more moderately are also the ones who seem to have the most difficulty actually doing so.

Fevers are a mixed blessing. They damage good tissues in the body, and some runaway fevers end up killing people. Also, for as long as people have had fevers, they've used herbal medicines (including ones containing the active ingredient in aspirin) to relieve them. But it's also possible that ancients knew something we don't: that helping along a fever may actually be beneficial.

Forget about calories and focus on accomplishment: don't take life sitting down. Then, when the day is done, you've earned your rest.

frees the body to heal itself. In taking away the fear, confusion and feelings of victimization so characteristic of TMS, we give the body a chance to do "its own thing.

Readers who are interested in an excellent review of where medicine is today vis-à-vis the mind-body connection should read The Healer Within by Steven Locke, MD, and Douglas Colligan (New York: Dutton, 1986).

We take life seriously and responsibly. As our lives become more complex, we generate more and more tension. This is the basis for most back pain.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts

The Healer Within by Steven Locke, MD, and Douglas Colligan (New York: Dutton, 1986).

In his well-known book The Anatomy of an Illness, Norman Cousins described how he overcame one of these autoimmune disorders, ankylosing spondylitis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis), by recognizing that it was emotionally induced and introducing a kind of humor therapy plus vitamin C.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.