Quotes About Health

vomiting baby fountains.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."-Anne Wilson Schaef

Take life as easy as you can," she wrote to Bernhard in January, "health is the best of all gifts.

modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.

From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

The decisions we make in our lives—in business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle choices, raising our children, and relationships—easily fit von Neumann's definition of "real games." They involve uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception, prominent elements in poker. Trouble follows when we treat life decisions as if they were chess decisions.

The same belief-formation process led hundreds of millions of people to bet the quality and length of their lives on their belief about the merits of a low-fat diet. Led by advice drawn, in part, from research secretly funded by the sugar industry, Americans in one generation cut a quarter of caloric intake from fat, replacing it with carbohydrates.

If our goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months, we can plan how to achieve that by imagining it's six months from now and we've lost the weight. What are the things we did to lose the weight? How did we avoid junk food? How did we increase the amount of exercise we were doing? How did we stick to the regimen?

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.

Your body is an intelligent organism; it knows how to heal itself.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.

A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit.

Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Horlicks guards against night starvation.