Quotes About Health

Too many keep-fit ideas are designed for those who are already fit, and they're just no fun.

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

When I found out dairy was an inflammatory, which I had no idea about, I cut that out.

I have never been on a cleanse, no. I have no interest in it.

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

Junk food was never allowed at home, and personally too, there is no love for aerated drinks.

I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your bladder.

My life could send healthy people into comas

but Hope had learned that a meaningful life was seldom about such things. It was about experiences and relationships; it was about health and family and loving someone who loved you in return. She'd

But if you'd told me, I would have been around more. We could have seen each other more, I could have helped you so you wouldn't be so tired all of the time. Just knowing you were here was more than enough. But maybe you wouldn't have ended up in the hospital. He reached for her hand. Or maybe watching you enjoy a care-free summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

Nowadays, her physical condition was a source of constant preoccupation—sometimes she longed for the heedless way in which she once took her body for granted. Age revealed so many things about oneself, she mused.

That was the thing about battling cancer. The waiting. So much of the last few years had been about waiting. Waiting for the appointment with the doctor, waiting for treatment, waiting to feel better after the treatment, waiting to see whether the treatment had worked, waiting until she was well enough to try something new.

Do you need some Tylenol? No, I'm just getting old. Tylenol can't do much to fix that.

In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions of Victoria Beckhams, then we would all be better off.

I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.

Because some people believe that eating meat is wrong. And other people believe it's bad for you. And some people believe both." "What do we believe?" "I guess we believe both, but we don't care enough to do anything about it.

L'amore, evidentemente, è antidemocratico come il denaro: si accumula attorno a persone che ne hanno già fin troppo: i sani di mente, i sani nel corpo, gli amabili

When a molecule of vitamin C encounters a free radical, it becomes oxidised and thereby renders the free radical innocuous. The oxidised vitamin C then gets restored to its non-oxidised state by an enzyme called vitamin C reductase. It is like a boxer who goes into the ring, takes a hit to his jaw, goes to his corner to recover, and then does it all over again.

the greatest mutational health hazard in the population is fertile old men. Thankfully, uniparental inheritance means that men don't pass on their mitochondria at all.

We now know that free-radical signals are central to cell physiology, so we can begin to see why antioxidants (which mop up free radicals) do as much harm as good.

It's not just lifespan that varies with free-radical leak, health span does

If free-radical leak is fast, degenerative diseases set in quickly; if it's slow, they're postponed or even abrogated altogether.

of oxygen, whether we think of it as 'good' or 'bad', is the formation of free radicals. As conventionally stated, the idea that breathing oxygen causes ageing is disarmingly simple. We produce free