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Quotes About Health

Cacao has great nutritional value, a lot of protein, which strengthens a person, and without sugar it is not fattening.
~ Samael Aun Weor
When I visited the ambassador from Grenada, she summed up the dynamic with a phrase I had heard often, 'If America sneezes, people in my country catch a cold' (p. 402).
~ Samantha Power
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ( Essay on Tea , 1757.)
~ Samuel Johnson
I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.
~ Samuel Johnson
APERITIVE  (APE'RITIVE)   adj.[from aperio, Lat. to open.]That which has the quality of opening the excrementious passages of the body.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALL-HEAL  (ALL-HEAL)   n.s. [Panax, Lat.]A species of ironwort; which see.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALMONDS  (A'LMONDS)  OF THE THROAT, or TONSILS, called
~ Samuel Johnson
Catechism.3. Recovery of health. Your honour's players hearing your amendment,Are come to play a pleasant comedy.Shakesp.Tam. Shrew.
~ Samuel Johnson
ANTHELMINTHICK  (ANTHELMI'NTHICK)   adj.[   against, and eklimho, a worm.]That which kills worms.
~ Samuel Johnson
ANTHONY'S [only in 1755 edition] (A'NTHONY'S)  FIRE.n.s.A kind of erysipelas.   
~ Samuel Johnson
And added, that as nervous disorders were more frequent in England, than in any country in the world, he was willing to hope, that the English physicians were more skilful than those of any other country in the management of persons afflicted with such maladies:
~ Samuel Richardson
I never saw the approaches of death in a grown person before; and was extremely shocked. Death, to one in health, is a very terrible thing. We pity the person for what she suffers: and we pity ourselves for what we must some time hence in like sort suffer; and so are doubly affected.
~ Samuel Richardson
I know there is so much to learn about medicine and it is all new. It is fascinating all the time and there is nothing more amazing than the human body. The hard physical part of the job will soon become usual and you must watch your health.
~ Samuel Shem
The thing is, said Gilheeny, is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.
~ Samuel Shem
Of course not. People expect perfect health. It's a brand-spanking-new Madison Avenue expectation. It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about. So maybe we do make diagnoses; big deal. We hardly ever cure.
~ Samuel Shem
The measure of a person's psychological health and growth is not in the self, but in the quality of her or his relationships.
~ Samuel Shem
It's our job to tell them that imperfect health is and always has been perfect health, and that most of the things that go wrong with their bodies we can't do much about.
~ Samuel Shem
There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.
~ Samuel Taylor
I'm dull and sad! indeed, indeed I know I have no reason! Perhaps I am not well in health, And 'tis a gloomy season. - The Three Graves
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Captain James Cook was famously credited with conquering scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) by bringing barrels of sauerkraut with him to sea and feeding it to his crews daily.
~ Sandor Ellix Katz
The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.
~ Sandor Ellix Katz
As a result of the War on Bacteria, our bacterial context is rapidly shifting. One bacterium formerly ubiquitous in humans, Helicobacter pylori, which resides in the stomach, is now found in fewer than 10 percent of American children and may be headed toward extinction.62 H. pylori has been associated with humans for at least 60,000 years, and there is evidence that closely related bacteria have lived in the stomachs of mammals since their emergence 150 million years ago.
~ Sandor Ellix Katz
Given the War on Bacteria so culturally prominent in our time, the well-being of our microbial ecology requires regular replenishment and diversification now more than ever.
~ Sandor Ellix Katz
Your physical action increases your attraction.Exercise, stretch, move, and let go. Every time you move your body with the intention to move out your old, unhealthy feelings and thoughts, you make a dynamic shift in your frequencies.
~ Sandra Anne Taylor