Quotes About Health

The South was a particularly unhealthy region and was home to 90 percent of American blacks, the majority of whom were enslaved until 1865.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.

A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks. Three

Why Research Issues Still Matter Why do centuries of mutual distrust over medical research matter today? What does the sad history of exploitative experimentation augur for black health?

Three times as many African Americans were diagnosed with diabetes in 1993 as in 1963.

living in the same house, married to the same woman, doing the same things in the same way until arthritis stiffened him, cataracts dimmed him, muscles failed and cancers ate him.

One had been stung by an insect, Jason got the medikit to him in time, but he was so sick he had to turn back.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Tobacco's a killer," Kafuku said. "Being alive is a killer, if you think about it," Misaki said.

To deal with something unhealthy, a person needs to be as healthy as possible. That's my motto. In other words, an unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

It was Aomame's firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible, whatever one might enshrine there.

Muscles are hard to get and easy to lose. Fat is easy to get and hard to lose.

Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea

If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best.

No one considered the possibility that I might have been experiencing a hot flash paired with a panic attack, a notoriously common experience in perimenopause.

I didn't know anything about perimenopause, including that I was in it, until I had already been in it for years, despite having an array of hallmark impacts: painful cystic acne, hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, depression including a resurgence of my suicidality, menstrual changes, digestive issues, body-composition shifts, an increase in headaches and other kinds of pain, exhaustion, and some serious cognitive challenges.

Understanding, acceptance, and management (or not!) of your choosing really are the names of the game here: they are what's actually doable and also won't make you feel even shittier about yourself than perimenopause can make you feel already.

With menopause, what's considered "normal" vaginal pH changes from a 3.8–4.5 range to higher, usually between 5 and 6, the same level it usually is before puberty, too. That's okay, but it can change our vulnerability to imbalances and infections.

Those who advocate for a raw diet suggest that it is the healthiest, most natural way to eat. Cooking, they say, is a modern bastardization of the human diet. This is simply wrong.

Why are bodies so difficult to manage? Why? 'Oh, oh, look at me, I'm a body, I'm going to splurge fat unless you, like, STARVE yourself and go to undignified TORTURE CENTRES and don't eat anything nice or get drunk.' Hate diet.

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.