Quotes About Health

I hope to be able to keep surfing as long as I'm alive.

Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.

I can't speak for everyone, but I know that I definitely don't want to be a consistent plastic surgery, cosmetic kind of scenario. I don't like going to the hospital. I don't want to put myself through pain. So I'm very limited; I know what I need, and then I call it a day.

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.

You only have one brain. There's no replacement surgery for that.

My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.

I jog every day, but I haven't had plastic surgery - though that's not to say if one day I look in the mirror and go 'Ugh!' I won't have something done.

The neck is not something you should have surgery on that much.

Something was causing me not to be able to sleep, and then after a while your brain doesn't want to turn off and go to sleep. And so it was constant battle with that. But as soon as I had the neck surgery, I started sleeping again.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.