Quotes About Health

In these circumstances people in poor families who can't pay their way are surrounded by an atmosphere of barely disguised acrimony; they stop being father, mother, sister or brother and become a purely negative factor in the struggle for life and, by extension, a source of bitterness for the healthy members of the community who resent their illness as if it were a personal insult to those who have to support them.

What is a health which merely makes people ripe to be damaged, abused, and shot at again?

In capitalist society health is the capability to earn, among the Greeks it was the capability to enjoy, and in the Middle Ages the capability to believe.

The couch from which the sick man arises would only be perfect if he was refreshed instead of merely patched up.

La fuerza y ??la salud habitan en los intrépidos. Por el contrario, el miedo asedia incluso a aquellos que se arman hasta los dientes, y a estos más que a otros

Ice cream is probably healthier than most breakfast cereals. I'm looking at you, Froot Loops.

Well, the main thing is to try not to die. I shall give you some advice on how to best bring that about.

I'm dying twice as fast as any other American between eighteen and thirty-five This disturbs me, but I try not to show it in public.

And so, as you say, "Perfect health, I seek you … I want you—I bask in the idea of perfect health," you are attracting health. But as you say, "Sickness, I do not want you," you are attracting sickness. As you say, "No, no, no," it is coming closer, closer, closer, because the more you struggle against something

The notion of feelings as an integral part of illness is universal—not only across continents and peoples, but across the divide of time that separates us from our ancestors.

deeming any particular BMI pathological is a political rather than a scientific act.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

When you say I love you very much , and your asthma's attack occurs, there is no time for palaver because instead of very you have to say call the ambulance .

given a choice between listening to Britney Spears and having a blocked aorta, I'd pick the latter)

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. —KRISHNAMURTI

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

I Do Not Sing Because I Dream I do not sing because I dream. I simply sing because you're real. I sing your ripened gaze, your purest smile, your animal grace. I sing because I am a man. And if I didn't sing I'd be just a brute, bursting with health, blind drunk and dizzy with delight there in your vineyard without wine. I sing because love wishes it. Because hay ripens in your arms, glistening wet. Because my body tightens facing them, bare and bathed in sweat.

A newborn's immune system is underdeveloped, which is convenient because it allows for colonization by Mom's bacteria, but it's also why young children are prone to infection.

Baby's first colonizers are supposed to be predominantly lactobacilli, the microbes picked up in the vaginal canal. Lactobacillus sets up a healthy human gut with positive influence over digestion and immune functions. If other species of bacteria are baby's first colonizers, the baby's microbiome sets up differently, maybe harmfully.

The relaxation response yields many long-term benefits in both health and well-being and can be brought on with very simple mental focusing or meditation techniques.

If vaccination can be conscripted into acts of war, it can still be instrumental in works of love.

This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.

Perhaps the starkest measure of the failure of our economic policies," Binyamin Appelbaum writes, "is that the average American's life expectancy is in decline, as inequalities of wealth have become inequalities of health.