Quotes About Health

He is not you, not a member of your family, so he has no direct emotional loss should your health experience a degradation.

more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.

it looks like this is because of overmedication and excessive medical care.

Or take the health category. Adding is on the left, removing to the right. Removing medication, or some other unnatural stressor—say, gluten, fructose, tranquilizers, nail polish, or some such substance—by trial and error is more robust than adding medication, with unknown side effects, unknown in spite of the statements about "evidence" and shmevidence.

Because deprivation is a stressor—and we know what stressors do when allowed adequate recovery.

if you seek certainty about whether the patient has cancer, not certainty about whether he is healthy, then you might be satisfied with negative inference, since it will supply you the certainty you seek.

occasional starvation produces some health benefits and

Had it not been for the discovery of antibiotics, only a few decades earlier, I would not be here today.

Further, the problem is not just that Mithridatization and hormesis can be known in (some) medical circles and missed in other applications such as socioeconomic life. Even within medicine, some get it here and miss it there. The same doctor might recommend exercise so you "get tougher," and a few minutes later write a prescription for antibiotics in response to a trivial infection so you "don't get sick.

I did not feel ill, Symmache; now I do (after your ministrations)." (Non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo).

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

In fact for most people except those that are very ill, the risks outweigh the benefits.

true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, some physical labor (or hobby), good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive (elimination of iatrogenics).

Nero was mindful of his health, spending at least an hour a day at the gym or in the pool.

as reduced exposure is one of the causes behind such allergies).

As to liquid, my rule is drink no liquid that is not at least a thousand years old—so its fitness has been tested. I drink just wine, water, and coffee. No soft drinks. Perhaps the most possibly deceitfully noxious drink is the orange juice we make poor innocent people imbibe at the breakfast table while, thanks to marketing, we convince them it is "healthy.

Again, limited, low-dose poisoning triggers healthy benefits.

Era livre quem aceitava viver o que havia para ser vivido. Era livre quem fazia dos pensamentos saúde e riqueza, e não uma armadilha para acabar asfixiado.

De niño había sido un poco endeble, y mi padre lo llevaba a caminar a la montaña para robustecerlo, como hacía, por otro lado, con todos nosotros. Mario acumuló un odio sordo por la montaña y, apenas pudo sustraerse al dominio de mi padre, dejó de ir totalmente.

A mí siempre me duele la cabeza. ¡Me siento cansada!». Y entonces él decía: «No estás enferma. Lo único que te pasa es que estás hecha de un material de mala calidad».

Munch está muerto desde hace tiempo, como pintor, le sobrevive un viejecito limpio y modesto, que pinta malos cuadros y que tal vez ha encontrado la salud en la mediocridad.

Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic human health. The development of industry and commerce at the cost of life has crippled humankind, without exception to one's place in the social hierarchy.

Fruit should be consumed alone, or with raw leafy greens such as spinach or lettuce, and always on an empty stomach.

Freeing the body contributes to freeing the mind.