Quotes About Health

A sit-up is a very basic exercise that only puts strain on one small portion of your abs. If you want a washboard stomach you need to work all your core muscles.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

Our long, flexible lumbar spines are great in many ways - they help us to run efficiently, for instance. But they have their drawbacks. The lumbar vertebrae are under great strain, and as we age, the ligaments that hold the pulpy centres of the intervertebral discs in place dry out.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

Although they can be very healthy I believe the current focus on gluten free lifestyles is a little misplaced. I see an awful lot of people that would benefit much more from a glutton free lifestyle.

The health of the body feeds the health of the mind. – Master Ter'cay

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

Over a period of years, you move from pre-diabetes, to diabetes taking a single medication, then two then three and then finally large doses of insulin. Here's the thing. If you are taking more and more medications to keep your blood sugars at the same level, your diabetes is getting worse!

If we understand that too much sugar in the blood is toxic, why can't we understand that too much sugar in the body is also toxic?

We pretended that using medications to lower blood sugar makes people healthier. But it's only been a lie. All because we've overlooked a singular truth. You can't use drugs to cure a dietary disease.

T2DM is simply the result of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption beyond the genetically predetermined maximum carbohydrate handling capacity of the insulin-glucagon hormonal system.

humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats and vegetable oils.

Diabetes is a global health epidemic. In a 2014 study, one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from Imperial College London reported that 422 million people worldwide were living with diabetes.1 That's four times as many as in 1980, when 108 million people were living with the disease. That bears reiteration – the number of diabetics has quadrupled across the globe in just over 35 years.

Human health depends above all on sound nutrition; sound nutrition means growing food and using it in accordance with nature's laws; of all foods made "unnatural" by industrial processing the commonest are refined sugar, refined flour and certain processed vegetable oils. I know of no research that refutes this simple concept.' – Dr Walter Yellowlees, A Doctor in the Wilderness

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 86 million people were at risk in the United States in 2014.2 That's an astounding one in three people.

He showed that the incidence of acute heart attacks was seven times higher in the rice-eating Indians living in the south than among the Punjabis in the north, who ate 8 to 19 times more fat, chiefly of animal origin, and about 9 times more sugar.59

Humans typically require 1-3 nutritional events per day. More frequent consumptive events are for the mind not the body.

Accordingly, the authors concluded: 'Irrespective of the possible limitations of the ecological study design, the undisputed finding of our paper is the fact that the highest CVD [cardiovascular disease] prevalence can be found in countries with the highest carbohydrate consumption whereas the lowest CVD prevalence is typical of countries with the highest intake of fat and protein.

Most certainly carbohydrates are not necessary for human survival because blood glucose levels are very effectively maintained by gluconeogenesis and glucagon. Carbohydrates are an endorphin releasing drug, not a hunger satisfying food.