Quotes About Health

good decisions aren't always made for healthy reasons.

if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn't exist.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder

Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking—It will make you wrinkled! It will make you impotent! It will make you dead!—is useless," Harris concludes. "This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments. It is because adults don't approve of smoking—because there is something dangerous and disreputable about it—that teenagers want to do it.

This one adult could have died from AIDS with little notice....He could have transmitted the virus to his wife and offspring. His infected wife (or girlfriend) could have given birth in a Swedish barrack to a child who was HIV infected but seemingly healthy. Unsterilized needles and syringes could have spread the virus from child to child.

Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by overstimulating the mind (253).

What was the difference between the As and the Cs? Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. He looked at their physical and mental health, their "masculinity-femininity scores," and their hobbies and vocational interests. He compared the ages when they started walking and talking and what their precise IQ scores were in elementary and high school. In the end, only one thing mattered: family background.

In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world. The Rosetans were healthy because of where they

Existen una serie de teorías que tratan de explicar por qué fumar tiene una relación tan fuerte con los problemas emocionales. La primera de ellas es que las mismas cosas que harían que alguien fuera susceptible a los efectos contagiosos del tabaco (baja autoestima, o vida privada infeliz o insana) vienen a ser también las cosas que contribuyen a crear una depresión.

having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.

Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be

If diet and exercise didn't explain the findings, then what about genetics?

Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be able to understand why someone was

Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

It's what you do every day that counts. Eating seven apples on Sunday won't keep the doctor away!

Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.

Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.

Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material.

Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have?

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.