Quotes About Health

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação. Acontecerá com ele o que acontece com todos os que, homens ou mulheres, abandonam sua missão: ficará doente, podre, fedorento. Água parada cria lodo, e a vida vai embora. Ninguém quer tomar banho em um rio com água parada, pois sabe que ali não há alegria. Ali estará um ser que desistiu.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Vitamin C also protects other tissues from free-radical damage. Whenever it encounters a free radical, it sacrifices one of its own electrons in order to 'pacify' and neutralize the intruder, destroying itself in the process. This running battle between vitamin C and free radicals occurs hundreds of thousands of times per second, and if you fail to supply your body with adequate quantities of this friendly free-radical scavenger, the enemy will eventually erode your body by attrition.

In traditional Oriental societies, pregnant women were carefully screened from viewing or hearing any unpleasant sights or sounds, especially those which arouse anger, fear, grief, or any other extreme emotional response, in order to prevent adrenaline, cortisone, and other hazardous biochemicals from being released and transferred to their developing foetuses via the bloodstream. This may have prevented mental, emotional, and physical abnormalities in their offspring.

The herbs he recommended most highly for promoting health and prolonging life were ginseng, gotu kola, Polygonum multiflorum, and garlic.

In light of the evidence against antibiotics, you should think twice before using them, and when you do, you should increase your daily dosage of vitamin and mineral supplements to replenish lost nutrients and also take a supplemental source of lactobacteria, such as Rejuvelac, to restore the friendly intestinal flora destroyed by the antibiotics.

Aspirin can cause critical deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and folic acid when used daily and should therefore be taken in conjunction with extra supplements of these nutrients.

Fasting is by far the most effective method for purifying the blood, organs, and all bodily tissues, and in this age of pervasive pollution it is more important than ever in warding off premature degeneration of the body due to toxicity. In laboratory tests on rats and other animals, periodic fasting has proven to extend average life spans by up to 50 per cent.

The body concentrates vitamin C around brain and nerve cells specifically to protect them from oxidation and free-radical damage, because vitamin C is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants.

La medicina è la più diffusa malattia ereditaria.

Commercially raised chickens are also kept confined in cages and fed on denatured feed contaminated with antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides. Chinese physicians have always recommended 'earth chickens' (tu-jee) as the only safe dietary source of chicken and eggs. Called 'free-range chickens' in the West, they run free around the farm, eating wild vegetation, insects, and worms, and getting plenty of fresh air and exercise.

In a chapter of the Internal Medicine Classic entitled 'The Oldest Truth', it is written: 'When one empties the mind and frees it of all desires, the genuine energy arises. If one maintains an undisturbed spirit within, no disease will occur.

Food enzymes are another important dietary element for cultivating vitality. The richer the enzyme content of food (such as raw and fermented foods), the less enzyme power the body must divert for digestive duty, resulting in an overall enhancement of vitality. Eliminating 'enzyme robbers' such as refined sugar and starch, hydrogenated vegetable oils, processed foods, and overcooked meats also boost vitality.

The best rule to follow with fruits is 'Eat them alone, or leave them alone.

Los mismos alimentos capaces de desencadenar una reacción alérgica cuando están incorrectamente combinados muchas veces no producen ningún efecto nocivo cuando se consumen de acuerdo con las leyes de la trofología.

How about a global pandemic? A novel strain of influenza for which we humans have no natural defense.

Chiara believed there was no malady that could not be cured by a bit of mineral water or a glass of good red wine.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Those who have never approached their bodies as temples have no idea of what they are missing. The frog at the bottom of the well sees only a fraction of light and believes it to be the whole sky.

Increasing dietary consumption of the brassica vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and Brussels sprouts, as well as allium vegetables such as onions, leeks, and garlic can all increase glutathione activity and offset the risk caused by this mutation.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.

She believes that the quality of mainstream wheat products in the US is troublesome for everyone—not just those with an actual sensitivity to wheat—because conventional wheat is washed in chlorine. Additionally, many packaged wheat products use additives and preservatives that wreak havoc on our bodies.

Approximately 50 percent of Americans have some form of insulin resistance, according to Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco.5 That percentage is even higher in adults older than forty-five. "In contrast to popular false beliefs, weight loss and health should not be a constant battle uphill through calorie restriction, which simply doesn't work," says Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt