Quotes About Health

You don't stop running because you get old, the Dipsea Demon always said. You get old because you stop running… .

Pentru ca noi am reusit sa ne creem chiar aici, pe pamant, un clopot de sticla cu gravitatie zero. Am eliminat sarcinile pentru care corpul nostru a fost creat, iar acum platim pentru asta. Toti marii ucigasi ai lumii occidentale - bolile de inima, atacul cerebral, diabetul, hipertensiunea si nenumaratele forme de cancer - erau complet necunoscute stramosilor nostri. Nu aveau acces la medicina, dar cunoasteau cateva pasiente magice care o inlocuiau cu succes.

Look how they point their toes down, not up, like gymnasts doing the floor exercise. And their backs! They could carry water buckets on their heads without spilling a drop! How many years have I been telling my kids to straighten up and run from the gut like that?).

A la segunda semana, Eric ya estaba enviándome a hacer recorridos de dos horas; su único consejo era que me mantuviera atento a la técnica y mantuviera un ritmo relajado, lo suficiente para que pudiera respirar a ratos con la boca cerrada (cincuenta años atrás, Arthur Lydiard dio un consejo equivalente aunque opuesto para controlar el pulso cardíaco y el ritmo: «No corras tan rápido que no puedas mantener una conversación»).

la vez que hacemos más ejercicios, dice el doctor Weinberg, es necesario que nuestra dieta esté basada en frutas y vegetales en lugar de carnes rojas y carbohidratos procesados.

las células residuales que la cirugía deja atrás al parecer son estimuladas por las proteínas animales. Si retiramos esos alimentos de nuestra dieta, esos tumores probablemente nunca llegarán siquiera a aparecer. Come como un pobre, como le gusta decir al entrenador Joe Vigil, y solo tendrás que ver al médico en un campo de golf. —Todo

Si lo primero que ingieres por la mañana son hojas verdes, perderás un montón de peso», me recomendó con insistencia.

Perhaps all our troubles—all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome—began when we stopped living as Running People.

Antes de empezar a correr largas distancias, los tarahumaras se hacen fuertes. Y si tenía intenciones de mantenerme sano, me advirtió Eric, yo debía hacer lo mismo. Así que en lugar de estirar antes de echar a correr, me ponía a hacer ejercicios. Tijeras, flexiones de pecho, sentadillas, abdominales;

Uno no deja de correr porque se hace viejo —decía siempre el Demonio de Dipsea—, uno se hace viejo porque deja de correr…» —Y

Humans really are obligatorily required to do aerobic exercise in order to stay healthy, and I think that has deep roots in our evolutionary history," Dr. Lieberman said. "If there's any magic bullet to make human beings healthy, it's to run.

You know what kind of nerves are in your feet? The same ones that network into your genitals.

Podríamos, literalmente, poner freno a las epidemias con este único remedio —me dijo. Levantó dos dedos haciendo el signo de la paz, luego los giró lentamente hacia abajo y empezó a moverlos como si estuvieran trotando en el espacio. El Hombre Corredor. —Así de sencillo —dijo— solo moviendo las piernas. Porque si no creemos que hemos nacido para correr, no solo estamos negando la historia, estamos negando lo que somos.

Risk" isn't quite the right term; it's more like "dead certainty." Every year, anywhere from 65 to 80 percent of all runners suffer an injury. That's nearly every runner, every single year. No matter who you are, no matter how much you run, your odds of getting hurt are the same. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, fast or slow, pudgy or ripped as a racehorse, your feet are still in the danger zone.

Anything the Tarahumara eat, you can get very easily," Tony told me. "It's mostly pinto beans, squash, chili peppers, wild greens, pinole, and lots of chia. And pinole isn't as hard to get as you think.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

He had come to the conclusion that children are tougher and more enduring than Dr. Holt will admit; and that a little carelessness in matters of hygiene and sterilization does not necessarily mean instant death.

Tice and Baumeister (1997) found that procrastinators not only received lower grades but also got sick more and had more visits to health clinics than nonprocrastinators.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Mental health is the ability to deny reality and repress feelings within the boundaries and parameters established by one's peer group(s). — Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees. For every thing that can be done in that posture (upon the knees) is better so done than otherwise. For I prophecy that they will understand the blessing and virtue of the rain. For rain is exceedingly good for the human body.

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.