Health Quotes - Page 32

• The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

  Michael Klaper

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  "Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much–and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter". Book by David Robinson Simon, September 2013.

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• Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings.

  Ariphron

  Blessing

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• I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

  Stephanie Klein

  Knowing, Answers, Body

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Life Is Short, Class, Differences

  Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”

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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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• Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

  Emmet Fox

  Healing, Emotional, Movement

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• Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your mind as you are with the nutrition of your body.

  Robert Muller

  Book, Healing, Mind

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Moving, Healing, Energy Medicine

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

  Franz Kafka

  Duty, Ifs, Oneself

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Fun, Moving

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• In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Athletic

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• It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Strong, Block

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• Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Work Out

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• Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Buddhism

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