Quotes About Health

He stopped going to meetings, and no longer follows his exercise program.

Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

More than seventy studies on intercessory prayer have shown the same nonlocal energetic connection effects as detected in the cheek cell experiment. One example of such a study was conducted by Dr. Randolph Byrd in San Francisco. It showed that patients undergoing heart surgery who were prayed for by groups scattered around the world did significantly better in their recovery than those who were not prayed for by these groups.9

I turned thirty, and suddenly I was at that point in your life where you want to eat Fruity Pebbles, but you're concerned about the fiber content.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

The now-common practice by men and women to delay parenting until they are almost too old to become parents has led to numerous medical disasters. It has long been known that infertility is a problem when women delay parenting, as well as Down syndrome. Now we know children of men who delay parenting also can end up paying a medical price.

The word respect comes from the Latin word respectus, which means the action of looking back. McWilliams (1999) emphasizes that the formulations encourage us to think about our patients as complex wholes, not just their weaknesses, but their strengths, not just their pathology but their health, not just their misperceptions but their surprising, unaccountable sanity under the worst of conditions.

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

they do have a personality disorder, you can't expect them to act like a healthy, well-adjusted person. That sets them up for failure—and it sets you up for disappointment

When I was a kid, "selfish" was an insult in my home. It was something only "bad" people indulged in. But I learned that it was only when I started taking care of myself that I was really able to care for others.

Passief ondergaand of actief ingrijpend, zwijgen of spreken. Het ene is ziekmakend, het andere helpt ons gezond te blijven.

Het niet bewust kunnen ervaren en uiten van het gevoelsleven kan bijdragen tot ziek worden. Dat emoties te maken hebben met lichamelijke spanningen en dat ontlading deugd doet, van lachen tot huilen, kunnen we allemaal ervaren. Maar het omgekeerde verband, dat tussen ziekte en het niet kunnen uiten en ontladen van emoties, bleef lange tijd een raadsel. Ondertussen hebben we een sleutel gevonden om de deur te openen naar het holistische netwerk. Die sleutel heet "stress".

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

[You need] eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

We now know that if someone is deconditioned and sedentary, it is important to focus on what is happening inside the person as well as on the outside," says Peter. "To get the greatest results, health professionals should use a holistic approach to help people achieve wellness.

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

To start with, a person is considered 'cured of cancer' if they don't die within five years of diagnosis.