Quotes About Health

Idleness ruins the constitution

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

After toe-off, masters runners tend to have less hip extension compared with younger runners, and the movement of the swinging leg when it is behind the body tends to be more lethargic in older runners.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

He [dad] always had some kind of trouble with his leg. He'd have bandages wrapped around it all the time but he'd never go and see a doctor. He'd rather have dropped dead than go to a doctor. He was terrified of them, like a lot of people his age were. And he'd never take a day off work. If he ever stayed at home feeling ill, it was time to call the undertaker.

Sharon saved my life, Sharon is my life, and I love her. And I was terrified that I was going to lose her. But as much as I wanted everything to be normal and right, I was terribly sick, physically and mentally.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat — in other words, turn you into an adult.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven't started yet.

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.

Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We've all agreed to this arbitrary set of rules that says sickness can't be escaped, illness is natural. Most

I am a child of God and therefore do not inherit sickness.

I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.

Cats are true carnivores. While you may choose a vegetarian lifestyle, don't assume it's healthier for your cat also. Cats aren't able to convert beta-carotene into vitamin A the way we can. They must get vitamin A from animal tissue (called preformed A). Cats are also unable to convert linoleic acid (an essential fatty acid) to arachidonic acid the way dogs can so they must get preformed arachidonic acid from its only source—animal tissue.

Limit catnip to once or twice a week.

GROIN session

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

I hear the doc gave you a thumbs-up on your surgery -Marc to Julian

Like the French, he starts babies off on vegetables and fruits rather than bland cereals. He's not obsessed with allergies. He talks about "rhythm" and teaching kids to handle frustration. He values calm. And he gives real weight to the parents' own quality of life, not just to the child's welfare.