Quotes About Health

Ces déclarations doivent décrire sans dissimulation les effets du tabac sur la santé des fumeurs et mentionner le fait que le tabagisme tue en moyenne plus de 1 200 Américains par jour, plus que les meurtres, le sida, le suicide, la drogue, l'alcool et les accidents de voiture réunis1382

le tabagisme tue près de 6 millions de personnes chaque année.

Le tabac a provoqué 100 millions de morts au XXe siècle.

On s'imagine a priori que la santé devrait influer considérablement sur le bonheur et qu'il est difficile d'être heureux quand on est frappé d'une maladie grave et contraint d'être hospitalisé. Mais il s'avère que ce n'est pas le cas, et que, même dans ces conditions, on retrouve vite le niveau de bonheur qui était le sien avant la maladie.

Selon le rapport des Nations unies sur le Développement humain (2007-2008), le risque de cancer colorectal diminue d'environ 30 % chaque fois que l'on réduit de 100 grammes la consommation quotidienne de viande rouge.

11 % des décès chez les hommes et 16 % chez les femmes pourraient être évités par une réduction de la consommation de viande rouge1356.

La consommation de viandes traitées (charcuterie) a été, quant à elle, associée à une augmentation du risque de cancer de l'estomac.

la consommation quotidienne de viande est associée à un risque accru de 18 % chez les hommes et de 21 % chez les femmes pour la mortalité cardio-vasculaire, et de respectivement 10 % et 16 % pour la mortalité par cancer

twenty-eight years old, getting elective surgery

there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury," even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

Of course we know that sexual promiscuity increases the likelihood of STIs, which is why we explore sexuality through romance - it's safer (and you don't have to shave your legs).

knew everything about him, the way wives do. I even knew the inside of him, having been there that day in Dr. Ruffner's office to review the footage of Joe's colon. We sat and watched light travel through his most intimate inner tubing, and after that we were really bound together for life.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

gente que piensa que su valor está relacionado con su masa corporal. Hombres obsesionados con el gimnasio, y mujeres que piensan que morirse de hambre es sexy.

The community had remained "remarkably healthy" during the family's stay, according to Dr. Peabody, except for one profitable outbreak of smallpox in a neighboring town.

After all, a terrible anxiety attends chronic illness. Over time, it becomes difficult to untangle the suffering from symptoms like pain from the suffering inflicted by the anxiety over the possibility of more pain, and worse outcomes, in the future. This does not mean that the illness is in the mind; rather, the mind—that machine for making meaning—makes endless meanings of its new state, which may themselves influence the experience.

be sick in this way is to have the unpleasant feeling that you are impersonating yourself. When you're sick, the act of living is more act than living. Healthy people have the luxury of forgetting that their existence depends on a cascade of precise cellular interactions. Not you.