Quotes About Health
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
~ Christopher Isherwood
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The Therapeutic Sensibility The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.
~ Christopher Lasch
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You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.
~ Christopher McDougall
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We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Running should be free, man.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Running is the heart of what it means to be human.
~ Christopher McDougall
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human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener
~ Christopher McDougall
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Everyone is built for running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running
~ Christopher McDougall
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RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.
~ Christopher McDougall
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You don't stop running because you get old', said the Demon. 'You get old because you stop running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Running seemed to be the fitness version of drunk driving: you could get away with it for a while, you might even have some fun, but catastrophe was waiting right around the corner.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Être fort pour être utile," Hébert declared. "Be fit to be useful.
~ Christopher McDougall
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You could literally halt epidemics in their tracks with this one remedy," he said. He flashed two fingers up in a peace sign, then slowly rotated them downward till they were scissoring through space. The Running Man. "So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Wilt Chamberlain, all seven feet one inch and 275 pounds of him, had no problem running a 50-mile ultra when he was sixty years old after his knees had survived a lifetime of basketball.
~ Christopher McDougall
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In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone.
~ Christopher McDougall
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The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.
~ Christopher McDougall
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As much for his mind as for his body, Erwan likes to run it barefoot.
~ Christopher McDougall
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You get leafy greens in your body first thing in the morning and you'll lose a lot of weight.
~ Christopher McDougall
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iskiate is otherwise known as chia fresca—"chilly chia." It's brewed up by dissolving chia seeds in water with a little sugar and a squirt of lime. In terms of nutritional content, a tablespoon of chia is like a smoothie made from salmon, spinach, and human growth hormone. As tiny as those seeds are, they're superpacked with omega-3S, omega-6S, protein, calcium, iron, zinc, fiber, and antioxidants.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Skillful marketing has made carbohydrate consumption a religion among athletes," he'd fume. "They believe that you cannot get energy from anywhere but carbs." The same foods Noakes had assured people would make them stronger and faster were a slow-acting poison making them fatter, weaker, and more prone to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and dementia.
~ Christopher McDougall
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