Quotes About Health

This healthy dependence is the essence of romantic love. The bodies of lovers are linked in a "neural duet." One person sends out signals that alter the hormone levels, cardiovascular function, body rhythms, and even immune system of the other. In loving connection, the cuddle hormone oxytocin floods lovers' bodies, bringing a calm joy and the sense that everything is right with the world. Our bodies are set up for this kind of connection.

Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two! Perhaps these findings reflect the time-honored saying "Suffering is a given; suffering alone is intolerable.

the quality of positive support—reassurance that a partner is loved and esteemed and is capable of taking control of his or her life—is the most crucial factor in the health of any relationship.

But it's not just whether or not we have close relationships in our lives—the quality of these relationships matters, too. Negative relationships undermine our health.

We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy — to survive.

Yet another study found that women who had had a heart attack stood a threefold higher risk of having another if there was discord in their marriage.

Even though we are programmed by millions of years of evolution to relentlessly seek out belonging and intimate connection, we persist in defining healthy people as those who do not need others.

We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. We swabbed ourselves in it to disinfect cuts or heal chapped lips. It went in our baths, our skin cream, our raspberry tea and biscuits. Nothing was safe from honey...honey was the ambrosia of the gods and the shampoo of the goddesses.

Los terrenos bajos son húmedos, lo cual provoca enfermedades y dificulta el combate.

Changing what you eat isn't going to help unless you start managing your stress level

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.

Most people need a way to calm down almost daily. That's why food is such an overly used self-soothing mechanism. You are seldom more than fifty feet away from some form of food at any moment, whether it's a vending machine or a fast-food restaurant.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

Peter always brings death with him, along with spinach or nuts. He said he'd seen 20 cases of West Nile during the week and five deaths from it. He also said two people had died from food allergies. They're so hungry they're taking their chances eating foods they're seriously allergic to, he said.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all.

This I know for sure: Life is...uncertain. As a society and as individuals, we must protect healthy people from disease. We must also treat those suffering from disease in an intelligent, humane, and compassionate way. We need to be rational and keep our fears in check.

corn sweetener is to the republic of fat what corn whiskey was to the alcoholic republic.

We used to be the drunkest nation in the world; now we are the fattest nation in the world.

Repressed rage can be one of the major sources of stress to the body. In fact, it can actually begin to wear the body out. Rather than deal with their unacceptable rage at their partners, many women unconsciously redirect their anger inward, back onto themselves. The more a woman does this, the more internal damage she is likely to do to herself.

Recognizing a problem and seeking help is a sign not only of health but of courage.

one should refrain from attributing the cause of disease to the diseased.

The hardly noticeable symptoms of cancer pale in comparison to those produced by the surgeons determined to excise it.

I had to make myself presentable. Doggedly I dosed myself with Alka-Seltzer.