Quotes About Health

The Dragon's Way is unlike any other "diet" program you have been on or heard about. In fact, it isn't really a "diet program" as you have come to know it in the Western world. Yet, if you follow The Dragon's Way, you will find that weight will come off. You will also discover something remarkable.

If you squat on a path, you'll get boils on your backside.

I rather dread doctors at one's age, it always seems to me they take one look at you, cry cancer & remove several important portions of your anatomy. (p89)

have chemicals in my body?! Why? What are they doing in there?

Health makes good propaganda.

Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition-- so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an ideal be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her Health: if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Dieting makes women think of ourselves as sick, religious babies.

This can no longer be explained as a private issue. If suddenly 60 to 80 percent of college women can't eat, it's hard to believe that suddenly 60 to 80 percent of their families are dysfunctional in this particular way. There is a disease in the air; its cause was generated with intent; and young women are catching it.

They reclassify healthy female flesh as "cellulite," an invented "condition" that was imported into the United States by vogue only in 1973; they refer to this texture as "disfiguring," unsightly," "polluted with toxins." Before 1973, it was normal female flesh.

Yet now, weirdly, in state after state, policies and media messages were promoting precisely the opposite. The message was not "Go to the park, go to the beach! Exercise! Open the windows! Get sun! Take Vitamin D!" but rather, "Stay Home! Bring the adult children home into crowded multigenerational households! Stay indoors, continually stressed with fear! Put a piece of fabric on your face!

The virus and the vaccine were just the stimuli. What had really been accomplished was the breaking of America.

Gluttony is one of the lowest and most animal vices, and is obnoxious to all who pursue a moderate course. The best workers and most successful men are they who are most moderate in eating and drinking. By taking enough nourishment, but not too much, they attain the maximum physical and mental fitness. Beings thus well-equipped by moderation, they are enabled to vigorously and joyfully fight the battle of life.

Human rhinoviruses may help train our immune systems not to overreact to minor triggers, instead directing their assaults to real threats. Perhaps we should not think of colds as ancient enemies but as wise old tutors.

They're also a danger to us all, because they help foster the evolution of increasingly drug-resistant bacteria in our bodies and in the environment

defective genes.

When the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, those laboratory stocks remained. All it would take to reverse that eradication was for someone to accidentally set the virus loose.

Terrorists might even try to use it as a biological weapon. Making matters worse, people were no longer getting smallpox vaccines, and so what immunity the public had to the virus was waning.

They made a compelling case that height could serve as an economic barometer, recording the well-being of societies.

HIV infections, for example, have declined in the United States, but fifty thousand Americans still acquire the virus every year.

Over the past three thousand years, smallpox may have killed more people than any other disease on Earth.

That's not because HPV was rare—far from it: a 2014 study on 103 healthy people detected the viruses in 71 of them—about 69 percent.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.