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Health & Nutrition: 50 Views on how we should treat our body

We live in times when food is all the time available and ready to eat, when technology makes our life comfortable and many people fight against excess weight. This collection of experiences and advices is quite inspiring and many of the views express even historical views on how we should treat our body and how we should eat in order to stay healthy.
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
113
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
102
The greatest wealth is Health.
Unknown
81
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
79
Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.
Unknown
83
Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
88
If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Unknown
81
Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.
Unknown
71
Garbage in garbage out
George Fuechsel
57
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
58
Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
B.K.S. Iyengar
64
If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.
Common sense
54
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Unknown
58
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Josh Billings
56
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley
57
From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.
Catalan Proverb
49
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison
48
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
47
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.
Astrid Alauda
53
Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention…
Anonymous
42
Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare
46
The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
Robert C. Peale
48
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
Hannah Green
46
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
Leslie Grimutter
48
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
Chinese Proverb
50
The best doctor gives the least medicine.
Benjamin Franklin
45
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
Thomas Edison
48
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Proverb
39
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.
Proverbs
35
True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington.
Anonymous
41
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Mark Twain
43
To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
William Londen
48
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Spanish Proverb
44
To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
Buddha
36
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.
Jay Leno
32
Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food. Stay away from these.
Michael Pollan
39
Health is a relationship between you and your body.
Terri Guillemets
43
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb
42
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
Dutch Proverb
38
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Cicero
40
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
Irish Proverb
44
Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I
38
The 'i' in illness is isolation and the crucial letters in wellness is 'we'.
Unknown
38
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
35
Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise.
Mike Adams
41
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates
36
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato
39
Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.
Unknown
34