Quotes About Wellness

All through high school, I was incredibly healthy. I loved the outdoors, and I loved snowboarding because of the freedom.

So many people could save a life if they just go and have a colonoscopy, but you've got to do something about that.

I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.

Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

I run into so many people who also have psoriasis and share the same feelings as I had. I tell them that it's about being your own boss and of not settling until they find whatever it is that works for them and they have their life look the way they want it to.

It's always OK to find help. Don't be ashamed if you need help. I have help from so many people. My wife helps me with my diet all the time. I have a nutritionist.

In this business I meet so many people. They are all trying to be healthy, but without an inner source they fail. They are not happy with themselves.

For me, my nutrition routine is a way of life, and I have so much energy when I exercise and eat a healthy balanced diet.

A lot of the things I do outside the rink are just to relax and recover. We spend so much time at the rink, so it's nice to decompress a little.

Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you're not hungry.)

DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE. No, a desk is not a table.

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS CONTAINING INGREDIENTS THAT ARE A) UNFAMILIAR, B) UNPRONOUNCEABLE, C) MORE THAN FIVE IN NUMBER, OR THAT INCLUDE D) HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP.

AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.

EAT MOSTLY PLANTS, ESPECIALLY LEAVES.

People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.

BE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO TAKES SUPPLEMENTS

EAT MORE LIKE THE FRENCH. OR THE ITALIANS. OR THE JAPANESE. OR THE INDIANS. OR THE GREEKS.

REGARD NONTRADITIONAL FOODS WITH SKEPTICISM

When most of us think about food and health, we think in fairly narrow nutritionist terms—about our personal physical health and how the ingestion of this particular nutrient or rejection of that affects it. But I no longer think it's possible to separate our bodily health from the health of the environment from which we eat or the environment in which we eat or, for that matter, from the health of our general outlook about food (and health).

DON'T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET.

In order to eat well we need to invest more time, effort, and resources in providing for our sustenance, to dust off a word, than most of us do today.

PAY MORE, EAT LESS.