“It was Aomame’s firm belief that the human body was a temple, to be kept as strong and beautiful and clean as possible.”
Source: 1Q84
“Blaming fatness for heart disease is a lot like blaming yellow teeth for lung cancer, rather than considering the possibility that smoking might play a role in both. And telling people they need to lose weight is a lot like telling someone with pneumonia to stop coughing so much—it may not be possible and won’t make the disease go away.”
Source: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight
“Many factors other than your size, fat, and muscle tissue figure in resting metabolism. Some are genetic and immutable. You may have been born with the ability to burn a lot of energy quickly and effortlessly, while others have what’s called a “sluggish metabolism”and don’t use energy at a very fast rate. It’s interesting to consider the cultural value judgment in using the term “sluggish”; from a scientific perspective, the person with a slower metabolism is much more efficient, a trait that would have been highly prized in earlier times when food was harder to come by.”
Source: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight
“Wellness is not the lack of sickness, but the capacity to overcome sickness.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Sick are not those who possess a sickness, but those who are possessed by sickness.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“One professional I never wish to see is doctor.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Enjoy yourself; not destroy yourself.”
“Martial arts is not about fighting, it is about being fit and healthy, both physiologically and psychologically.”
“For we seek that which we already possess. We are the magic which we have been seeking”
“The pharmaceutical industry, which has a vested interest in making us believe that fat is dangerous—and that they have a solution—wrote the BMI standards that are currently used.”
Source: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight