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"Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger."
—Zhuangzi (369—298 BC)
"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it."
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
"The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired."
"The physician treats, but nature heals."
"Walking is a man's best medicine."
― Hippocrates (460-370BC)
"In those who are healthy…the body does not alter even from extreme causes; but in the unhealthy even the smallest causes produces the greatest change"
― Galen (129-216)
"Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored back to health. In other words, it is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is restored after being lost. While some divide medicine into a theoretical and a practical [applied] science, others may assume that it is only theoretical because they see it as a pure science. But, in truth, every science has both a theoretical and a practical side."
—Avicenna (980-1037)
"The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy."
— Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
"Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means."
"The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom."
"A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses."
— Maimonides (1135-1204)
"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs."
—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
― Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
"To live by medicine is to live horribly."
"It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them."
— Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
"The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us."
— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)
“Medical education does not exist to provide student with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.”
“Medicine must go back to nature and a physician should be the high priest of nature.”
― Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health."
― William Osler (1849-1919)
“Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.”
― Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
"Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow."
― Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
"It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling."
― Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
"The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
— Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This monopoly is at the root of the modernization of poverty. Every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permits the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty. Once basic needs have been translated by a society into demands for scientifically produced commodities, poverty is defined by standards which the technocrats can change at will. Poverty then refers to those who have fallen behind an advertised ideal of consumption in some important respect.”
― Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
“It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.”
― Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)
"When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself."
― Francisco J. Varela (1946-2001)
"The more the media reports on health risk, the smaller is the danger for you"
“The obesity pandemic is due to our altered biochemistry, which is a result of our altered environment."
“Exercise is the single best thing you can do for yourself. It’s way more important than dieting, and easier to do. Exercise works at so many levels—except one: your weight.”
“Marketing, media, and technology have capitalized on subverting our brain physiology to their advantage in order to veer us away from the pursuit of happiness to the pursuit of pleasure, which for them of course equals the pursuit of profit.”
“Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 600,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.”
"The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot."
"The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be"
“In any case, the principles are simple: deny nothing; enjoy everything, but eat plants first and most. There's no gimmick, no dogma, no guilt, and no food police.”
“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”
“Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.”
"Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased."
― Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
"All long-living people, regardless of their race, sex or nationality, have one thing in common – they are not overweight."
"To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving."
“Science alone can’t cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.”
— Shigeaki Hinohara (1911-2017)
"Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society."
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”
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