Quotes About Health

Doctors recommend swimming for the heart, the back, the morale, and the waistline.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.

A teaspoonful of semen contains the same amount of protein as the white of one egg. However, the consumption of semen can be much more fun.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "Goddamn it, Otto, you are an alcoholic." "Goddamn it, Otto, you have Lupus." One of those two doesn't sound right.

When I became a vegan in 1987, in one fell swoop I extended my life expectancy and annoyed most of the people in my life—my mom most of all.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis.

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Un homme incommode à tout le monde, malpropre, dégoûtant, sans cesse un lavement ou une médecine dans le ventre, mouchant, toussant, crachant toujours ; sans esprit, ennuyeux, de mauvaise humeur, fatiguant sans cesse les gens, et grondant jour et nuit servantes et valets.

On mange pour vivre; on ne vit pas pour manger.

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

One must eat to live and not live to eat.

any psychiatrist who based his studies entirely on the subconscious, ignoring organic causes like disease, would build his theories on sand and watch the "psychological constructions collapse like a house of cards.

Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: "The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of civilization's success, and those (scientists) who accomplish that task will be among the true navigators of a brave new world."     With

Myxomatosis,

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that's behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don't know wellness. You've learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.

Yoga's an amazing release.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.