Quotes About Health

There must be something to acupuncture–after all, you never see any sick porcupines.

When he was taken to the hospital in South Carolina, his blood sugar was 1,680 mg/dL.

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

That old saw about smiling when you're sad left out the real point- that it kills you to do it.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

My background is in health care.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn't work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people.

You're not supposed to have salt." "I'm not supposed to have cancer, either. If you don't bring me some brandy, I'm kicking you off my property.

I will tell you the one thing that distinguishes swimming from all other forms of exercise." I listen carefully. "People enjoy it a lot more.

Over time, swimming has shifted from mere mechanics and survival—a military skill, practiced by men—to achieve a more intangible significance: a form of recreation, a pleasure, something that can sharpen your spiritual as well as physical health. This idea of swimming for wellness, emotional resonance, whole personhood, rings true to me. The physical is intertwined with the psychological.

Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. "The fuller sense of self we have," Young once told an interviewer, "the more responsibility we take for it.