“You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.” Quote by Jack LaLanne
“If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!” IfsMenHeartCompassionLike YouHealthyFellowsTiredFellow ManLove And CompassionLike Yourself Author:Jack LaLanne
“No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.” MenMatterBodyGrowsSeeingConditionsCitizensHealthyCapableTrainingProfessionDisgracePhysical Training Author:Socrates
“We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.” LifeFacesLife IsIndividualProcessUnderstandingChangeAbilityEnvironmentHealthHealthyDiseaseFunctionAbsenceMeaningfulCoherenceManageable Author:Aaron Antonovsky
“If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.” IfsCharacterLostLosesWealthHealthyLost Everything Author:Woodrow Wilson
“"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.” WayLongUsePastPresidentWaterEffectsFoodProduceSeriousHealthyDrugBasesMedicalRangePoisonAssociationVehicleFluoride Author:Charles Bernhard Heyd
“Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny - John Robbins” IfsKnowsGivingShouldWellsChildrenSaidBookDifficultDestinyKnow HowSawsEasierHealthyBlessingShapesOur ChildrenYesterdayClarityExcellentYour ChildrenGuidanceShirtsT ShirtConvenientDelightedJunkNew BooksJunk FoodIf You Love Me Author:Joel Fuhrman
“People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.” PeopleNeedsFeelsWellsUseEyeUsedValuesOrderHealthyCapacityCeaseImpulseClamorCapacity To LoveIntrinsic Value Author:Abraham Maslow
“For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.” MeanLittlesVirtueClearToo MuchProduceExerciseHealthyEatingIncreaseDrinkingPreservesQuantityTemperanceInsufficientEating And DrinkingDrinking Too Much Author:Aristotle
“Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.” JoyDutyHealthyIncreaseDoing Good Author:Zoroaster
“Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.” PleasureHealthyPreservationIndulgeIndulge Yourself Author:Baruch Spinoza