Quotes About Health

Numerous cross-cultural studies have shown that modern society—despite its nearly miraculous advances in medicine, science, and technology—is afflicted with some of the highest rates of depression, schizophrenia, poor health, anxiety, and chronic loneliness in human history.

humans have dragged a body with a long hominid history into an overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, competitive, inequitable, and socially-isolating environment with dire consequences." The

Crash diets don't work. They don't work for losing weight, they don't work for making sales quota and they don't work for getting and keeping a job. The reason they don't work has nothing to do with what's on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don't work is that they don't change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.

By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it.

Sharon Moalem

From aardvarks to zebras, most of our mammalian cousins have working copies of the genes that can manufacture vitamin C naturally within their bodies. But humans (along with guinea pigs, of all things) have a genetic inborn error in metabolism, a mutation that renders us incapable of doing the same thing. This makes us completely dependent upon our diets to get our daily supply of vitamin C.

If a newly pregnant mother spends the first weeks of her pregnancy eating a typical junk-food-laden diet, the embryo may receive signals that it's going to be born into a harsh environment where critical types of food are scarce. Through a combination of epigenetic effects, various genes are turned on and off and the baby is born small, so it needs less food to survive.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

Embracing what is We're conditioned to believe that painful feelings are "bad" and that pleasurable ones are "good." It's often easier—though not healthier—for us to avoid grief and sorrow, while only embracing sensations like happiness, confidence, and love.

May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease.

We nurture our sense of connection with the larger whole, noticing that the whole is only as healthy as its smallest part.

Integrity Intention Doing Better Moral Distress The Moral Demands of Compassionate Health Care Authenticity What Is Our Work?

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

I'd rather have rabies than be in love. Why? Because at least you can get over rabies with some shots.

Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork," and all in pursuit of the dollar. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working," he ranted, "but learning and working are for life.

Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.

Hello," my doctor said. "Are you there?" "Yes," I said. "So, what's going on?" "There are irregularities in your head." "My head's always been wrong

Diabetes is just like a lover, hurting you from the inside.

family of four coughing blood into handkerchiefs in the examining room.

We order Diet since my father and I are both diabetic. Genetics, you know?

Grim sighed heavily. I swear I'm getting a migraine. My mom suffers from those a lot, too. Being around you, I imagine she does.

I know. 'Nick, go after psycho-ass and show him where he lives.' But might I point out that in doing this, I should qualify for hazard pay? (Nick) Might I point out that staying here with me is far more hazardous to your health? (Acheron) What? Am I still here? Oh no, sorry, thought I'd left ten minutes ago. (Nick)