Quotes About Health

The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

My philosophy is eat healthy. Your body is your temple.

TODAY. Repeat to yourself, the first thing upon awakening in the morning and the last thing before going to sleep at night—"My body was made in the image and likeness of God. God first imagined it in its entirety, therefore every cell and bone and tissue is perfect, every organ and muscle performing its proper function. That is the only model of me in Universal Mind. That is the only model of me that my Subconscious Mind knows.

parents in poor neighborhoods are more likely to experience depression, stress, and illness, which in turn "are associated with less warm and consistent parenting.

It was a telling point: Roosevelt met with Truman only twice during the eighty-two days of his fourth term, and their discussions were brief and perfunctory. Roosevelt apparently believed that his health problems would not cut short his life, or at least would not affect him before the war ended. Moreover, he didn't seem to think that Truman needed to know about the atomic bomb or postwar plans. This may

Too much fast food and too much caffeine, her doctor said. Good advice, but eating well and exercising took time Tracy didn't have

That's like complaining you're getting a gut, so you go on an all-Twinkie diet.

Sleep was like sex. The less you had

How's the head?... They say I'll need a couple of stitches. Who knows, could be an improvement.

Most indigenous cultures also have elaborate theories about health and disease, seamlessly entwined with their mythological understanding of the universe and their place in it. Although the details vary, a frequent theme is that illness is caused by having too much or too little of a particular substance in the body.

Unfortunately, government policies intended to help the private sector are too often similar to the attempts of the medical profession of 200 years ago to improve health. In those days, a visit to the doctor or hospital was likely to make you worse rather than better. Governments would be wise to follow the oath taken by physicians, which is "First, do no harm."

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Dietary research reveals that many people go off their nutritional diets on or about day 13—a Fibonacci number. Yet if they can pass critical day 13 and make it through to day 21, they usually will succeed in losing weight and establishing the new habit pattern that allowed them to lose the weight.

Some people choose "to go to college" rather than choose "to be educated", or choose "to eat health foods" rather than choose "to be healthy." Because this kind of choice invests undue power in the process, the result is inextricably tied to the process, and the ways in which the desired result can come about are limited.

In the orientation of the creative, once you have consciously made the choice to be healthy and you are attracted to eating certain foods and following certain forms of exercise, you are involved in an organic process. The structural tendency of this organic process is for you to be attracted to those processes that will be particularly beneficial to your health. Those processes might include the usual, expected ones, such as health food and exercise, as well as unexpected ones.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

I was in therapy for a bit. Now I do CBT exercises." "Do you, though?" Strike asked mildly. "Because I bought vegetarian bacon a week ago, but it's not making me any healthier, just sitting there in the fridge.

The argument had been in full swing when Matthew's father telephoned with the news that a funny turn Matthew's mother had suffered the previous week had been diagnosed as a mini-stroke. After this, she and Matthew felt that squabbling about Strike was in bad taste, so they went to bed in an unsatisfactory state of theoretical reconciliation, both, Robin knew, still seething. It was

something he wanted to eat that might also plausibly support weight loss.