Health Quotes - Page 31

• I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

  Stephanie Klein

  Knowing, Live In The Moment, Meals

  Stephanie Klein (2009). “Moose: A Memoir”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

  Stephanie Klein

  Pain, Kids, Cutting

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• Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.

  Jeanette Jenkins

  Motivational, Fitness, Cells

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2013

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• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Believe, Journey

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

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• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

  Plato

  Mistake, Two, Soul

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

  Theodor Adorno

  Opposites, Sick, Normal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Things In Life, People, Important

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• It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Civilization, Facts, Disease

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• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  Rene Dubos

  Aberration, May, Becoming

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

  Karl Evang

  Numbers, Giving, Yardsticks

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• To state that the cost of proper medical care itself surpasses the financial resources of any of the countries in the West is of course ridiculous, not the least when one considers the other purposes for which money is freely being used and working hours spent.

  Karl Evang

  Country, Care, West

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Psychological, Wells

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Yellow, Blood

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Weakness, Organs

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• Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sobriety, Capacity, Concern

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• Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

  Michael Marmot

  Sex, Pain, Cancer

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• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Exercise

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Feelings, Complaining

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

  Oliver Sacks

  Feelings, Growth, Enhancement

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• Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Want, Amusing, Courses

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• Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.

  Robert Shapiro

  Country, Cost, Pay

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• Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

  Susan Sontag

  War, Physicians, Disease

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Medicine, Defense

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  May, Imagine, Ideals

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Eye, Rainbow

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