Quotes About Health

It lasted more or less through the night; and then intermitted, at that terrible time in the early morning – from two o'clock to five – when the vital energies even of the healthiest of us are at their lowest. It is then that Death gathers in his human harvest most abundantly. It was then that Death and I fought our fight over the bed, which should have the man who lay on it.

How inestimably important in its moral results—and therefore how praiseworthy in itself—is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.

Again I say it, therefore walk, and be merry; walk, and be healthy; walk, and be your own master! walk, to enjoy, to observe, to improve, as no riders can! walk, and you are the best peripatetic impersonation of holiday enjoyment that is to be met with on the surface of this work-a-day world!

Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation. Is

versions of Hippocrates' Prognostics, Galen On Foods, and

The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

The Egyptians enjoyed a great variety of diseases, though they had to die of them without knowing their Greek names.

Nothing could be so injurious to health as the Stoic repression of desire; what is the use of prolonging a life which apathy has turned into premature death?

intercostal muscles. They are located between your ribs, and basically, they are how you breathe.

Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'.

There is nothing he enjoys so much as a good walk, which he calls "the most social of exercises.

Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.

Autonomy in making decisions and the control it gives those that have it over their lives is essential, in his view, for a sense of well-being, social engagement, health

disease in the casual chain." Consequently, the direct effects of social structures on health are often ignored, even though social structures and conditions may ultimately be responsible for causing the health problem under investigation (Lomas 1998; Sweat and Denison 1995).

Social class or socioeconomic status (SES) is the strongest predictor of health, disease causation, and longevity in medical sociology.

Thus class boundaries were also cultural boundaries and in a very real sense constituted health boundaries as well.

rather that healthy eating symbolizes something undesirable and exposes them to social risks. While this may seem irrational to public health experts, Stead and her associates argue that unhealthy eating can be viewed by the teenagers as profoundly rational because of the risk of an impaired social identity and rejection by peers.

To the sick man sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.

Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay

It's a curious thing how no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.

It's a curious thing how, no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride. And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.