Quotes About Health

Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.

Fitness to me isn't about a crunch or a push up, it's about taking your power back.

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

I allow the healing power in my body to manifest perfect health.

That body of his, which had been fed more on stimulants than on food...

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.

You gotta give yourself oxygen before you can give it to anyone else. I have to put my own mask on first.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

Every year pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people in America—it's the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

Every hospital is, as I've noted, an interruption machine—a flood of people come to poke you and prod you and ask you questions.

The Etiquette of Illness

First and foremost, health and safety,' she said. 'If a UFO lands, you must wait until it's stopped completely before approaching. Only invite the ETs to come closer if it is absolutely safe to do so. If anyone gets zapped, the first-aid kit is in the back of my tent.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

bo," I begged. "Please, breathe." After a few minutes, the contraction subsided, and Soo-bo sank into the bed. Her face was ashen, and sweat matted her

Exercise, done properly, not only isn't dangerous but promotes our health. Furthermore, the benefits of exercise will probably spill over into other areas of our life. We are likely, for example, to find that we have more energy than we used to. Our self-esteem is also likely to rise.

Seneca points out that by causing our bodies to deteriorate, old age causes our vices and their accessories to decay. The same aging process, though, needn't cause our mind to decay; indeed, Seneca remarks that despite his age, his mind "is strong and rejoices that it has but slight connexion with the body." He is also thankful that his mind has thereby "laid aside the greater part of its load."3

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.