Quotes About Wellness

Our difficulty is not just that we haven't learned to cook and grow food, however important that is; it's that we haven't learned to eat in ways that support health and happiness

We eat so often and so much because we have more or less lost touch with the signals our body is sending us about hunger.

If it's not a mealtime and you are wondering which of two 'healthy snacks' you should buy, the answer is probably neither.

Overeaters often say they are swallowing their feelings.

Modern meals marketed at children send the message that if you are a kid, you cannot be expected to find enjoyment in anything so boring as real, whole food.

Girls eat better when food stops being something forbidden.

It is genuinely possible to reach the point where you desire broccoli more than fries and wholemeal sourdough more than sliced white bread.

Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it's good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.

Avoid 'distracting' meals such as TV dinners and computer lunches. replace the biscuit jar with a fruit bowl. Repackage food into smaller containers. Order half-size portions in restaurants. Replace short wide glasses with tall narrow ones. And get smaller plates.

Every day, children are exposed to messages - whether on giant hoardings and TV ads or from looking in friends' lunchboxes - telling them that they should like the very foods that will do them the most harm.

Learning how to eat better - which is quite different from going on a diet - is within anyone's grasp.

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.

We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But this is getting ahead of ourselves. Nutrients only count when a person picks up food and eats it. How we eat - how we approach food - is what really matters.

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break.

If you overdo it, there are consequences. What kind of consequences? Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms... How do you know when you have overdone it? When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.

Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est," he said — Life is more than merely staying alive.

If you overdo it there are consequences,' said Nightingale. I didn't like the sound of that at all. 'What kind of consequences?' 'Strokes, brain haemorrhages, aneurysms …' 'How do you know when you've overdone it?' 'When you have a stroke, a brain haemorrhage or an aneurysm,