You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.
I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.
Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable. . . Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
General Motors spends more on health care than steel
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.
When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.
As a physician and a U. S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
I've outlived all my diet doctors.
I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges. ' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.