Quotes About Wellness

I just had a stroke and it was pretty epic

That's the only way to cure an illness, right? Diagnose it." She

there's good crazy and bad crazy

If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and complexity, we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else. You may exercise diligently, eat a medically fashionable diet, and still die of a sting from an irritated bee. You may be a slim, toned paragon of wellness, and still a macrophage within your body may decide to throw in its lot with an incipient tumor.

Analizând preocup?rile de ast?zi pentru practicarea fitnessului, f?r? îndoial? c? un psihiatru de la jum?tatea secolului al XX-lea ar g?si numeroase motive s? suspecteze o gam? larg? de tulbur?ri mintale - masochism, narcisism, tulburare obsesiv-compulsiv? - fiecare dintre acestea putând semnala necesitatea unei intervenÈ›ii medicale.

Suppose that preventive care uncovered some condition that would require agonizing treatments or sacrifices on my part - disfiguring surgery, radiation, drastic lifestyle limitations. Maybe these measures would add years to my life, but it would be a painful and depleted life that they prolonged.

The truly sinister possibility is that for many of us, all the little measures we take to remain fit—all the deprivations and exertions—will only lead to a longer chance to live with crippling and humiliating disabilities.

Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life." No more annual exams, cancer screenings, mammograms, and any other measure "expected of a responsible person with health insurance….Not only do I reject the torment of a medicalized death, but I refuse to accept a medicalized life.

Según el plan de los Simonton, la mujer tenía que dedicar parte de la jornada a dibujar batallas entre células con forma de insecto, como si fueran un tebeo. Si en estos dibujos las células cancerosas no aparecían "muy débiles [y] desorientadas", y las de las defensas no se mostraban "fuertes y agresivas", la paciente estaba tonteando con la muerte y tenía que esforzarse un poco más.14

If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other four days? It's the worst of bad manners—and self-protection, I think, in a nervously cynical society—to ridicule the small gesture.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are tougher creatures than those labeled conventional, precisely because they've had to fight off predators themselves.

Too much adrenaline will age you before your time. I've heard that said. What I know for sure is, it will push you too fast through your day.

eating home-cooked meals from whole, in-season ingredients obtained from the most local source available is eating well, in every sense. Good for the habitat, good for the body.

Besides wanting you to have a healthy child, I want you to be as healthy as possible. The Food for Thought sections at the end of certain chapters describe how the nutrients your unborn baby needs will also benefit your own health, now and for many years to come.

Healing is dealing, and dealing is feeling, and feeling is healing.

Stored and stuffed emotions take a great toll on the body, and eventually the old built-up energy will be released in the form of painful physical manifestations.

attract more friends, and extend life. Humor heals.

Medicine isn't supposed to taste good—that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.

But accurate insights might have helped me. Medicine isn't supposed to taste good—that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.

I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of neck bridges, front and back, and a variety of other bodyweight calisthenics and stretches. What you can get done with nothing more than a floor, your bodyweight, and gravity in thirty minutes of nonstop activity would put the fitness equipment industry out of business if people caught on.

I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of neck bridges, front and back, and a variety of other bodyweight calisthenics and stretches. What you can get done with nothing more than a floor, your bodyweight, and gravity in thirty minutes of nonstop activity would put the fitness equipment industry out of business if people caught on. When

Working out always took the edge off when he was feeling paranoid.

Americans spent about $27 billion on nontraditional remedies, most of them unproven.