Quotes About Health

To the best of our knowledge, there's no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child's microbiome in any way.

This research raises the possibility that regular consumption of artificial sweeteners may induce a shift in levels of the hormones that control insulin production

When you take an antibiotic, you tend to wipe out a lot of good bacteria while trying to get at the bad ones. It's like weeding with a bulldozer instead of a trowel.

When pregnant women scoop up cat litter and accidentally breathe in the particles, the parasite can find its way to their placentas. Like viruses, it can damage placental cells and cause them to commit suicide. The resulting condition, called toxoplasmosis, can lead to fetal infection, miscarriage, congenital disease, or disability later in life. This is why many pregnant women get their partners to empty the cat box for nine months.

we certainly don't recommend applying yogurt to the vagina or the penis during sex

The jury may be out over the long-term consequences, but it seems prudent to us to avoid C-sections if you have a choice.

The placenta is thought to be an impervious barrier, at least to most bacteria

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults

It has been proven that dogs can detect lung cancer by smelling a patient's breath, and can even smell early signs of cancer before medical experts can detect them.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

but it's also possible that the wrong kind of attention will lead you into unhealthy fears and attachments about how your body should look.

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

To be able to forget means sanity.

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.