Quotes About Health

One drawback to living in a medical research town is that they're paranoid about health, both physical and mental. The adults get off easy. Not the kids. Sneeze twice in a row and the teacher calls the school nurse. Drop out of a sport or let your grades fall and you're whisked off to Dr. Fodor's couch. They especially monitor the teens, as if hormonal surges could make us spontaneously combust at any moment.

You could have stayed with my mom today," I said as Daniel navigated the potholes and ruts. "You've got to be hurting." "Nope. Don't feel a thing." "Tough guy," I said. "No, well-medicated guy.

We'll talk on the way," he said. "We really need to get going, and if Corey's getting a headache--" "It's not bad," Corey interjected. "I'll be--" "You won't be fine. We need to look after that first.

hundred million Europeans were living on fifteen hundred calories a day—the level at which health begins to suffer from malnutrition. As

The king's visit to Coligny's sickbed

the air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

Si os quedáis en casa, no podéis ir a la iglesia. La santidad es la mejor medicina.

Addison's disease and colitis. Twice a day the doctors shot him up with a

People said that bathing was bad for your health, and Edgar never bathed in winter, but those who never bathed at all stank all their lives. Ma and Pa had taught their sons to keep themselves fresh by bathing at least once a year.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy—not ascetically starved and despised—it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go.

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

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

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

You should treat as many patients as possible with the new drugs while they still have the power to heal.

Radar, of course, is what cellphone radiation is exactly like. It can be a similar frequency, it's just much weaker power.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?