Quotes About Health

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art nouveau, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

Medicines are not meat to live by.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To prove her

The widow's own grandmother had believed that education was damaging — too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Beans beans the magical fruit the more you eat the more you toot the more you eat the better you feel so let's eat beans for every meal.

Never let a gynecologist put anything in your nose.

Suddenly I began to wonder how to please so many people. do I take the magnesium citrate? What about the coffee enema? Do I do both? Do I do the abdominal message or the colonic? Do I tell the doctors about each other? East meets West in Gilda's body: Western medicine down my throat, Eastern medicine up my butt.

India's latest latrine triumph will improve the lives of many of its citizens. Given what else has been going on in the rest of the world, any reports of currently "defecation-free" zones, literal or metaphorical, are welcome.

The week before the marathon, sleep well. If normally you "get by" with five hours but require seven, make sure you get seven every night. The sleep you get the week leading up to the marathon is more important than the night before. The night before, you probably won't sleep well due to anxiety, excitement and anticipation.

One of the most important ways for you to train, stay healthy and injury free is to listen closely to what your body tells you.

The 1918 epidemic came in two waves, a mild flu in the spring of 1918 followed by the killer flu in the fall.

The results were unequivocal. Both in London and in the United States, people who had survived the 1918 flu had antibodies that completely blocked Shope's swine flu virus. People who were born after 1918 did not have those antibodies.

knows exactly how serious this threat could be. Nevertheless, we cannot afford to take a chance with the health of our nation." With that preamble, Ford announced that he was asking Congress to appropriate $135 million "for the production of sufficient vaccine to inoculate every man, woman, and child in the United States," for a disease that no one could even prove to exist.

city did take a few precautions. On September 18, its health officials began a public campaign against coughing, spitting, and sneezing. Three days later, the city