Quotes About Health

In my day, I, myself, in my prime, in the late-'50s-mid-'70s I was about 270-275. After I broke my neck and I was in the hospital for a month or so, I dropped the weight to about 250 and I kept that weight until I retired.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

Eating breakfast revs our metabolic engines so that they're ready for prime calorie burn all day.

At 35 women are at the bottom level of middle age but we can look like we are absolutely in our prime. Even if you're badly out of shape, you can put yourself in good shape in two years, maximum.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Given how dangerous it is for someone to consume something they are allergic to, you would think that companies would just make sure they print labels which have the allergy information on.

I look back upon those days in the Crockett/Turner era of The Four Horsemen and often wonder how I made it out alive. Perhaps my contract had some fine print on it that said, 'Associating with The Four Horsemen can be hazardous to one's health.'

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

As a diabetic, I was fortunate to have good health coverage through my employer prior to and during my first run for office in 2004.

Even prior to my herniated disc, Id been to an acupuncturist in Oxford for general muscular pain, and to an osteopath.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

I have realied where my priorities are where do I want to keep it on my health or being with my loved ones.

There comes a time in your life - I'm healthy and happy, and I've been fortunate - you've got to prioritize things.

When a person has work, she has income and can achieve financial self-sustainability. She can prioritize her family's health and education. Her standing in the community is lifted, and so is her confidence.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.

Nutrition is the topmost priority for me with my pets at home as well as for the team at Blue Cross.