Quotes About Health

No tendrás, pues, que establecer en la ciudad, junto con esa judicatura, un cuerpo médico de individuos como aquellos de que hablábamos, que cuiden de tus ciudadanos que tengan bien constituidos cuerpo y alma, pero, en cuanto a los demás, dejen morir a aquellos cuya deficiencia radique en sus cuerpos o condenen a muerte ellos mismos a los que tengan un alma naturalmente mala e incorregible?

And things which are at their best are also least liable to be altered or discomposed; for example, when healthiest and strongest, the human frame is least liable to be affected by meats and drinks, and the plant which is in the fullest vigor also suffers least from winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes. -Of course. -And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence? -True.

El alma es la que debe ocupar nuestros primeros cuidados, y los más asiduos, si queremos que la cabeza y el cuerpo entero estén en buen estado.

Love is a serious mental illness.

The good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible.

El amor es una grave enfermedad mental.

Ma spesso ci si deve accontentare se i corpi possono riacquistare vigore e salute con un dolore non eccessivo.

You must get yourself so organized that people can't find you and see you to talk with you," he advised. Besides, he "never thought talking to people helped them get well.

ora, in condizioni patologiche non è raro che la carta, secreto aziendale, venga riassorbita in misura eccessiva, e addormenti, paralizzi, o addirittura uccida l'organismo da cui è stata essudata

this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad

I know it's ridiculous to drink skim milk when you're pigging out on a chocolate bar, but I figured, why not cut calories where you can?

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver's problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

I get maudlin. Some people drink; some get depressed; some run around having sex with anyone with a pulse. Me, I get philosophical. It's healthier.

Breath, Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but I hear it's quite good for humans. -Myrnin.

And lowering your blood pressure by deep breathing or meditation—or even a healthy swearing session inside your closed car—has fewer side effects than any pill.

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out right to know, and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us.

Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.

When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. They may be widely separated both in space and time. To discover the agent of disease and death depends on a patient piecing together of many seemingly distinct and unrelated facts developed through a vast amount of research in widely separated fields.

Carson's thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.

T]here is no safe dose of a carcinogen.

The question of chemical residues on the food we eat is a hotly debated issue. The existence of such residues is either played down by the industry as unimportant or is flatly denied. Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. In all this cloud of controversy, what are the actual facts?

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

I]t is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical and physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.