Quotes About Wellness

If you come away from this book with one rule and one rule only, it is this: don't drink sugar water. In any form. Not a Big Gulp Coke. Not a Knudsen's 100 percent natural and organic fruit juice.

Frank Forencich, who lives in Portland, Oregon, and writes and thinks about the role of movement and play in people's lives;

Go Wild reveals the depth of our current evolutionary discordance, awakening us to how our lifestyle choices foster maladaptive gene expression and thus pave the way for disease.

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Shine

Sedentary behavior causes brain impairment, and we know how: by depriving your brain of the flood of neurochemistry that evolution developed in order to grow brains and keep them healthy.

Further, researchers began compiling a list of diseases absent in indigenous populations, no matter where they lived on the planet, including and especially cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, psoriasis, dental cavities, and acne. Note that this list includes some of the very diseases that constitute our worst problems today.

Public health recommendations, from the Centers for Disease Control to the American College of Sports Medicine, suggest doing some form of moderate aerobic exercise for thirty minutes at least five days a week.

If you're not eating, not caring about your body, letting it waste away, having your mind distorted by being constantly intoxicated, you can't be a serious exerciser. You can't do it.

If you can get to the point where you're consistently saying to yourself exercise is something you want to do, then you're charting a course to a different future—one that's less about surviving and more about thriving.

How do they feel about being Mr. Duncan's guinea pigs? "I guess it's OK," says Michelle. "Besides getting up early and being all sweaty and gross, I'm more awake during the day. I mean, I was cranky all the time last year." Beyond improving her mood, it will turn out, Michelle is also doing much better with her reading.

There's certainly nothing wrong with taking medicine, but if you can achieve the same results through exercise, you build confidence in your own ability to cope.

you are born to move with grace, born to embrace novelty and variety, born to crave wide-open spaces, and, above all, born to love. But one of the more profound facts that will emerge is that you are born to heal. Your body fixes itself. A big part of this is an idea called homeostasis, which is a wonderfully intricate array of functions that repair the wear and tear and stress of living.

exercise is as effective as certain medications for treating anxiety and depression.

Getting older is unavoidable, but falling apart is not.

What it means is that you have the power to change your brain. All you have to do is lace up your running shoes.

Exercise Is Medicine," so

A little is good, and more is better." The best, however, based on everything I've read and seen, would be to do some form of aerobic activity six days a week, for forty-five minutes to an hour. Four of those days should be on the longer side, at moderate intensity, and two on the shorter side, at high intensity.

Exercise is another tool at your disposal, and it's handy because it's something you can prescribe for yourself

we sometimes lose sight of the fact that the mind, brain, and body all influence one another. In addition to feeling good when you exercise, you feel good about yourself

the message I want to leave you with is that even as your body changes, exercise will keep your mind firm and taught.

Chronic stress is linked to some of our most deadly diseases.

if you have an important afternoon brainstorming session scheduled, going for a short, intense run during lunchtime is a smart idea.

I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because

Food is power. . . are you in control of yours?