Quotes About Health

1026. Confidential data from the maritime industry that leaked information revealed that one giant container ship can emit the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as fifty million cars. That means the top fifteen largest container ships together in the world may be emitting as

When you sit for longer than three hours per day, your life expectancy can be reduced by up to two years. It can reduce by an additional 1.4 years if you are watching TV as you sit down.

Adding sugar to a wound will greatly reduce the pain and speed up the healing process.

Stress literally kills your brain. Studies have found that months of exposure to stress can permanently destroy neurons in your brain, which affects learning, impulse control, reasoning, and memory.

Watermelon contains high levels of vitamin B6, so eating it can actually help relieve stress and anxiety.

In Serbia, kindergarten kids usually strip down to their undergarments, go outside, and pour extremely cold water on themselves to strengthen their immune systems.

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.

Q: What's the difference between broccoli and boogers? A: Kids won't eat broccoli.

Q: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? A: It felt crummy.

Q: Why did the orange go to the hospital? A: It wasn't peeling well.

A Polish man was suffering from constipation, so his doctor pre-scribed suppositories. A week later the Pole complained to the doctor that they didn't produce the desired results. "Have you been taking them regularly?" the doctor asked. "What do you think I've been doing," the Pole replied, "shoving them up my ass?!

Q: What do you get when an epileptic falls into a lettuce patch? A: Seizure salad.

The dentist says to his patient, "I have to pull this tooth, but don't worry, it will take just five minutes." The patient asks, "And how much will it cost?" The dentist replies, "A hundred dollars." "A hundred dollars for just a few minutes' work?" the patient asks. "I can pull it more slowly if you like.

Q: Did you hear about the constipated accountant? A: He couldn't budget.

Q: How did the pirate stop smoking? A: He used the patch.

Public hospitals should be for the poor - everyone else should have private health insurance.

Goody's headache powder.

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

The problem began with his telomeres. What is a telomere? Picture the little plastic bits on the end of your shoelaces. Imagine each time you tie your shoes, you have to clip off a little bit of that plastic part to get it to go through the lace holes. After you've done this enough times, the plastic tip is gone and the shoelace starts to unravel. Once the laces unravel enough, it's impossible to tie your shoes, and you walk around looking like a goober.

Individuals who rate high on the so-called Anxiety Sensitivity Index, or ASI, have a high degree of what's known as interoceptive awareness, meaning they are highly attuned to the inner workings on their bodies, to the beepings and bleatings, the blips and burps, of their physiologies; they are more conscious of their heart rate, blood pressure, digestive burblings, and so forth than other people are.

But ministry growth is never a good indicator of a church leader's spiritual and emotional health.

A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

But in just the past hundred years or so, we have turned the tables and taken control of biology. Smallpox, a virus that killed as many as 300 million people in the first part of the twentieth century (far more than in all wars combined) has not merely been tamed but has been eradicated from the planet.