Quotes About Health

I am all right. I am fine. I am alive, and I will stay that way.

ability to get by with no more than four hours' sleep—plus an occasional catnap—was no exaggeration. "Sleep," he maintained, "is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality, and opportunities.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

should not be "losing 10 pounds," it should be something intrinsically motivating, such as "Fitting into my sexy black pants (without gastrointestinal distress)." Suddenly, your weight-loss mission starts looking more like a playful quest, with frequent victories along the way, and less like a daily weigh-in on the bathroom scale

British Medical Journal asked its readers to vote on the most important medical milestone that had occurred since 1840, when the BMJ was first published. Third place went to anesthesia, second place to antibiotics. The winner was one you might not have expected: the "sanitary revolution," encompassing sewage disposal and methods for securing clean water. Much of the world, though, is still waiting for that revolution to come.

40% of U.S. adults do not always wash their hands after using the bathroom at home.

2 out of every 5 people you shake hands with may not have washed their hands between using the toilet and touching your hands.

The U.S. government has a 5 A Day campaign that's designed to encourage kids to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. McDonald's alone outspends this campaign by a ratio of 350 to 1.

We know the fast-food companies have big ad budgets, we know that they outspend healthy messages, but 20 times more, 143 times more, 350 times more? What's the big deal?

McDonald's alone outspends the 5 A Day campaign by 350 to 1.

If a child sees a McDonald's commercial every single day, it would take them almost a year to see just one commercial about 5 A Day.

Mindless Eating, by Brian Wansink [Dieting

Couch to 5K había cambiado su vida. Él pretendía

Sternin's strategy was to search the community for bright spots—successful efforts worth emulating. If some kids were healthy despite their

A single M&M has 4 calories. In order to burn off the calories in a single M&M, you'd have to walk 2 flights of stairs.