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“You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.”

May Stills Ends Light Darkness Health Amount Destruction Function Candle Shed Minimum Indulge Brighter Liquor Indulge In Time Heals Physique Nightlife

Author:Coco Chanel

“Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”

Body Strong Health Healthy Skills Capacity Function Educational Physical Fitness Physical Education

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.”

Night Causes Hours Sleep Brain Health Function Safety Brain Function

Author:Daniel Amen

“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”

Whole Science Certain Culture Social Support Health Type Development Healthy Tradition Accounts Function Structure Application Integrated Social Structure

Author:Talcott Parsons

“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“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.”

Life Faces Life Is Individual Process Understanding Change Ability Environment Health Healthy Disease Function Absence Meaningful Coherence Manageable

Author:Aaron Antonovsky

“The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.”

Found Levels Healing Health Function

Author:Rudolph Ballentine

“Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.”

Real Individual Term Ability Groups Health Disease Function Defined Attributes Acceptable Physiological

Author:Rene Dubos