Quotes About Health

In his early days in business, Rockefeller often suffered from severe neck pains that might have indicated stress on the job, and he turned to horses as a therapeutic diversion. "I would leave my office in the afternoon and drive a pair of fast horses as hard as they could go: trot, break, gallop—everything.

He must have felt that his own health would be jeopardized if he varied his rituals.

Don't overwork like Coster just because you can and like to do it.

the RIMR was now "probably the best equipped institution for the study of the causes and cure of disease to be found anywhere in the world

While Tarbell's articles were running, Rockefeller, his wife, his son, and two of his three daughters were afflicted by serious medical problems or nervous strain.

He even told me that anxiety and worry about the matter [i.e., university finances] had made him sick

Hardly a period of his life was free of illness and depression.

His gifts also reflected his own obsessive concern with longevity.

He is almost exclusively preoccupied with his bodily health, thinking of different medicines, new diets and possibly new doctors!

If Rockefeller generally enjoyed excellent health, there were early warning symptoms of the toll taken by the excruciating pressures of Standard Oil.

For Rockefeller, the onset of the disease coincided with his breakdown of the early 1890s.

Big Bill's interest in medicine, conventional and otherwise, began to surface in his son and became more pronounced with time.

Before Rockefeller's hair fell out, people noted the contrast between him and his often sickly wife.

The doctors found evidence of cancer but were unsure of their diagnosis and delayed telling him until February 1905.

The Rockefellers were more interested in exercise, which stressed health, than in sports, which stressed pleasure.

She never entirely recuperated.

he congratulated her for her better health

To explain his extraordinary longevity, he later said, doubtless overstating the matter, "I'm here because I shirked: did less work, lived more in the open air, enjoyed the open air, sunshine and exercise.

Global Health Security Index," a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal with a pandemic.

The crown prince laughed. "But this is the flu!" he said. "We have the flu every year! We all get the flu, even the royal family!

The FBI opened hundreds of investigations. Among the ironies was the fact that more than $850,000 went to five anti-vaccine groups.

The first is that it directly infects the endothelial cells that line our blood vessels. I'm not aware of any other respiratory viruses that do this. This causes a lot of havoc.

The second surprise was hypercoagulability—a pronounced tendency to develop blood clots.

How much do you work out? I don't, he said. It's genetic. Which it was. Puberty had brought him many things unbidden, including height and weight and an extreme mesomorph physique, with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, and a chest like a suit of NFL armor, and biceps like basketballs, and subcutaneous fat like a Kleenex tissue. He had never messed with any of it. No diets. No weights. No gym time. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, was his attitude.