Quotes About Health

Be selfish, stupid and have good health. But if stupidity is lacking, then all is lost. Flaubert's dictum for getting through life unscathed.

Dormir. Trop dormir épaissit le sang.

Y haciéndole sentar al borde del lecho, empezaba a hablarle de sus penas. El la olvidaba... Amaba a otra... Ya le habíand dicho que sería desgraciada. Y acababa pidiéndole algún jarabe para su salud y un poco más de amor.

Dom zijn, egoïstisch en gezond, ziehier wat je nodig hebt om gelukkig te zijn. Maar als het eerste ontbreekt, dan is alles verloren.

Calvitie. Toujours précoce, est causée par des excès de jeunesse ou la conception de grandes pensées.

La felicidad es como la sífilis. Si la contraes demasiado pronto te echa a perder la constitución.

Estomac. Toutes les maladies viennent de l'estomac6

Est-ce étrange qu'un simple malaise, un trouble de la circulation peut-être, l'irritation d'un filet nerveux, un peu de congestion, une toute petite perturbation dans le fonctionnement si imparfait et si délicat de notre machine vivante, puisse faire un mélancolique du plus joyeux des hommes, et un poltron du plus brave ?

Sé positivo. Las tácticas para asustar son difíciles de digerir y pueden tener un efecto contrario al deseado. Por ejemplo, la advertencia de que «Veinticinco millones de personas se están matando fumando cigarrillos» podría convencer a la gente de que fumar es aceptable porque hay veinticinco millones de personas que lo hacen. Dibuja una imagen realista de los beneficios futuros en vez de intentar asustar a la gente.

Louisiana is a delightful country, and though the climate too often proves fatal to a foreigner, yet generally we ascribe to the climate what is the effect of our imprudence. I have been severely attacked this summer, and had nearly died, but at length I am acclimated." The author of these words was John Windship, a Bostonian who migrated to Louisiana not long after his graduation from Harvard in 1809.

I'd rather die smiling. And running makes me smile.

You're a runner. You probably don't eat carbs, do you?

Psychological recovery is as important as physiological recovery.

We're unquestionably more at risk the hour a day that we run," says Paul D. Thompson, MD, director of preventive cardiology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut, "but the other 23 hours in the day, we are much less at risk. In balance, you're much safer exercising than not exercising.

To become a better runner, you need to: 1) adapt a proper diet, 2) lower body fat, 3) avoid smoking and heavy drinking, 4) obtain adequate sleep, and 5) exercise regularly. Do that, and you also can add years to your life.

It is not how much training you do as much as it is how well you recover from it. Because if you do not recover adequately, you will become either injured or sick or chronically fatigued, with resulting poor performance. Thus, while everyone has a different number of miles per week that they can tolerate (due to weather, terrain, biomechanics, lifestyle) without breakdown, the secret to success is not to exceed that threshold.

Children should live a wholesome and natural life and go about with a mussel in one corner of their mouths and a shrimp in the other instead of sweets.

Und, bitte, ein bisschen Langeweile - Langeweile in kleinen Dosen ist so gesund.

In actuality there are no such things as male or female hormones. Hormones have no sex of their own, and all types of sex hormones are present in all human beings in varying amounts.)

Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Concern trolling is when someone appears to be concerned for your health or welfare, but only until they can catch you with your guard down so they can go after you about your weight, size, or whatever they presume is true about your fitness levels and general health.

You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.

I always assumed I'd find love like that. But now I don't want it. It isn't healthy. It makes you too dependent. You smile when they smile. You laugh when they laugh. But when they stop laughing, so do you. And when they die, a part of you dies too.

He looked maybe half an egg sandwich away from a coronary.