Quotes and Sayings About Health
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
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The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
-- Adelle DavisSource : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
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Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
-- Adelle DavisSource : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
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Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
-- Albert Camus -
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I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.
-- Albert Camus -
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
-- Alexander Fleming -
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
-- Alexander the Great -
I had the constitution of a missionary.
-- Alexandra FullerSource : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.3, Rodale
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Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.4, Rodale
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You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.80, Rodale
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When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale
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When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.128, Rodale
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You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
-- Ali VincentSource : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.165, Rodale
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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
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Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart