Health - Quotes & Sayings
We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.
Travis BradberryHigh-quality food is better for your health.
Michael PollanNo matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
Mehmet OzI saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
Mehmet OzTo the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely to look better, feel better, lose weight and gain health.
Dean OrnishThe next frontier in nutrition will be about reconfiguring diets according to individual specific physiology, lifestyle, and health goals.
Denise MorrisonI'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I'm a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I'll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.
Kevin HartI'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
Hulk HoganIf God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
Richard RohrWe have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
Kate MiddletonIf Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
Jamie OliverPurpose has always been part of Unilever's DNA. Our founder, William Lever, built a business around the sale of Lifebuoy soap that was not only profitable and sustainable but also helped transform the health of the poor in Victorian Britain.
Paul PolmanMainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.
MobyState and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.
Ron DeSantisTen days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.
Ginger ZeeI don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
Adam CarollaThe health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.
Mike HuckabeeThe essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
Paul FarmerYou can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
Paul FarmerI don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.
Richard RussoWell, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Jim DeMintGrowing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
David BoreanazBut to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
Laura IngrahamWhen we harness the ability to turn connections into data and then into knowledge, we can empower citizens, patients, and professionals to prevent disease, avoid or better manage health crises, and even save lives.
Tae YooOne state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
Chris ChristieThe difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
Helene D. GayleAntibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.
Anthony FauciThe current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
Vikram PatelAs I have always said, the ACA is not without flaws, and I welcome the opportunity to improve the law to make healthcare more affordable and ensure every American has quality health insurance.
Seth MoultonOnce brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry ElderIt is the women who bring the men to this world: men are there because of women. It was my mother who brought me out of a health condition that threatened to usurp me completely. If we still treat women with disrespect, it is utterly shameful.
Sangram SinghThere are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
Matthew LeskoLooking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
Anne Wilson SchaefThat's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.
James VeitchIn this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
Carl HonoreAccess to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
Ed PastorThe ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Philip SidneyI believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
Jay WeatherillWherever I am, I always do yoga every day. I think it's so important for my physical health in sport.
Christen PressEffective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Ivan IllichThere's nothing more important than the health of our babies.
ThaliaYou can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
Steven AdlerAnd whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
Louise SlaughterI am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.
Sherri ShepherdSince 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.
Mike QuigleyWe should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
Liya KebedeIf we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.
Dick DurbinPeople are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.
Theodore ZeldinOmega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.
Joel FuhrmanIntervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
Gro Harlem Brundtland