Quotes About Health

If you talk about sickness, it will develop sickness in your system. If you talk about your doubts, your doubts will become stronger, and they will destroy your faith. If you talk about your lack of finances, it will stop the money from coming in.

3 JOHN 2 2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest PROSPER and BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS thy SOUL PROSPERETH.

Many people believe the lie that it is not God's will to heal them, yet it is illogical to believe that God heals, and at the same time believe that He won't heal you.)

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Remember: If you run more than 3 miles five times per week (or a combination totaling 15 miles per week), you are running for something other than fitness, such as competition or ego-building.

But even as I talk about working out for 20 minutes in these most effective aerobic activities, I should mention that that's only a minimum. The optimum workout would be more like 30 minutes, three to four times a week.

And to complicate this problem, after near-fasting dietary programs (500 calories a day or less), you may gain weight more rapidly even when you eat fewer calories than you did before.

To the North American Indian, "medicine" meant more than a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick or maladjusted body. "Medicine" was energy - a vital power or force that was inherent in Nature itself. A person's "medicine" was their power - the expression of their own life-energy system.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

The successful mapping of the human genome was only a first big step, it turns out, one that would become the foundation for yet another quantum leap in biology. More advanced research, especially in the last decade, points to the advent of a new field called epigenetics, which studies the human epigenome.

Qi is the Chinese word for "life energy". According to Chinese medicine, qi is the animating power that flows through all living things. A living being is filled with it. A dead person has no more qi. A healthy individual has more qi than one who is ill. However health is more than an abundance of qi. Health implies that the qi in our bodies is clear, rather than polluted and turbid, and flowing smoothly, liek a stream, not blocked or stagnant.

When filled with qi, the body is like a tree branch filled with sap; it can bend and flow with the breeze, but it does not snap or lose its connection with the root. On the other hand, a stiff, dead branch is easily broken. Thus the adage of Lao Zi, "Concentrate the qi and you will achieve the utmost suppleness... Suppleness is the essence of life.

Sometimes we learn the lessons we most desperately need in the form of illness." - Larry Dossey

Qi cannot flow through a tense, knotted muscle or a locked joint.

The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.

Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?

Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

While we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.