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

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.

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.

The greatest wealth is Health.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.

Those who think they have no time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?

Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.

Garbage in garbage out

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

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.

If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.

Mainstream medicine would be way different if they focused on prevention even half as much as they focused on intervention…

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.

The best doctor gives the least medicine.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington.

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.

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

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.

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.

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.

Health is a relationship between you and your body.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.

The 'i' in illness is isolation and the crucial letters in wellness is 'we'.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Today, more than 95% of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise.

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.

By cleansing your body on a regular basis and eliminating as many toxins as possible from your environment, your body can begin to heal itself, prevent disease, and become stronger and more resilient than you ever dreamed possible!