Quotes About Health

It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?

She was a woman I would recognize now as a likely sufferer from varicose veins, hemorrhoids, a dropped womb, cysted ovaries, inflammations, discharges, lumps and stones in various places, one of those heavy, cautiously moving, wrecked survivors of the female life, with stories to tell.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora's work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.

Then she added thoughtfully, "And that old woman that turned me off so short got down so bad in the end that she was walking on two sticks." And I knew she was thinking, though she never said it: Here I am today, my eight children healthy and grown and three of them in college and me with hardly a sick day for years. Ain't Jesus wonderful?

Health is our culture; anything that interferes with it is our bondage.

They then started to test the other children, and it was discovered that none of us had sufficient vitamin C, D, or A in our diets. We never had fruit, never had raw leafy greens, never had milk. There was plenty of this on the Island, you know, but it was all sold, every scrap of it, to the mainland, and had been since slavery time.

work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?

Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!

war was a dangerous business, and those who escaped death at the hands of the enemy often perished as a result of the dysentery and disease that could decimate armies.

People drink alcohol and take drugs to try to feel how happy people feel normally.

the morning, Sam is still sick, and Courtney has a headache

If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.

It's a powerful poison and will shorten your life considerably. It is also highly addictive, will debilitate your immune system and impede your concentration. It will systematically destroy your nervous system, your confidence, your courage and your ability to relax. By the way, it tastes awful and will cost you about £100,000/$160,000 in your lifetime. What does it do for you? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

SUMMARY • Nicotine is the addictive poison which hooks you. It's the No.1 killer. • Smokers go on smoking despite all the obvious disadvantages because they're in a trap. • Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking. It's a disease. • You are not in control of your smoking. The cigarette controls you. CHAPTER 2

I would like you to pause for a moment, and to record your own feelings about smoking: what you think it does for you, why you smoke and why you want to

Being a smoker can never get better, only worse.

Knowledge is not necessarily enough to beat the nicotine trap.

Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

For example, those of you who think it is just a habit, ask yourselves why other habits, some of them enjoyable ones, are easy to break, yet a habit that tastes awful, costs us a fortune and kills us is so difficult to break.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.