Quotes About Health

the feeling of control—whether real or illusory—is one of the wellsprings of mental health.

Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings—anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness—is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.

Psychological detachment from work, in addition to physical detachment, is crucial

Breaks are not a sign of sloth but a sign of strength

frequent short breaks are more effective than occasional ones

Say it with me now, brothers and sisters: Lunch is the most important meal

Each of us has a "chronotype"—a personal pattern of circadian rhythms that influences our physiology and psychology.

continuing to think about job demands during breaks may result in strain.

lunch (not breakfast) is the most important meal of the day

Many of our education, finance, and health regrets are actually different outward expressions of the same core regret: our failure to be responsible, conscientious, or prudent.

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Take a deep breath, expanding your belly. Pause. Exhale slowly to the count of five. Repeat four times."7

Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired (2012) By Till Roenneberg If you're going to read one book about chronobiology, make it this one. You'll learn more from this smart, concise work—organized into twenty-four chapters to represent the twenty-four hours of the day—than from any other single source.

This could be one reason that paying people to stop smoking often works in the short run. It replaces one (dangerous) addiction with another (more benign) one.

Likewise, several studies show that paying people to exercise, stop smoking, or take their medicines produces terrific results at first—but the healthy behavior disappears once the incentives are removed.

We're all dying, Jamie. Some of us faster than others.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.

Fending off Alzheimer's, he says, involves five key components: a diet rich in vegetables and good fats, oxygenating the blood through moderate exercise, brain training exercises, good sleep hygiene, and a regimen of supplements individually tailored to each person's own needs, based on blood and genetic testing.

What are the determinants in how we age? The different systems in our brains age at different rates. Some systems decline as others actually increase in efficiency and effectiveness. The basic message

Nicotinic receptors are so named because they respond to nicotine, whether smoked or chewed, and they're spread throughout the brain. For all the problems it causes to our overall health, it's well established that nicotine can improve the rate of signal detection when a person has been misdirected—that is, nicotine creates a state of vigilance that allows one to become more detail oriented and less dependent on top-down expectations.

Spend time with people younger than you. See your doctor regularly, but not obsessively. Don't think of yourself as old (other than taking prudent precautions). Appreciate your cognitive strengths—pattern recognition, crystallized intelligence, wisdom, accumulated knowledge. Promote cognitive health through experiential learning: traveling, spending time with grandchildren, and immersing yourself in new activities and situations. Do new things.

Anger, hatred, and fear are very bad for our health. . . . Passing through life, progressing to old age and eventually death, it is not sufficient to just take care of the body. We need to take care of our emotions as well.

Recall that being organized and conscientious are predictive of a number of positive outcomes, even decades later, such as longevity, overall health, and job performance.

Alternative medicine is simply medicine for which there is no evidence of effectiveness. Once