"Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food." ~ Hippocrates

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"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~ Jean Giraudoux

"Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar." ~ Wilfrid G. Oakley

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

"The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." ~ Mark Twain

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." ~ Samuel Butler

"For breath is life, and if you breathe well, you will live long on earth." ~ Sanskrit Proverb

"I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Do you think there's such a thing as airborne calories? Maybe they just jump directly onto your hips." ~ The BBC Television Show, Coupling

"Thirst is a shameless disease, so here's to a shameful cure." ~ Irish Toast
"May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you In the palm of his hand."
~ Irish Blessing

"From the bitterness of disease, man learns the sweetness of health." ~ Catalan Proverb

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." ~ Carl Reiner

"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart, which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker." ~ Author Unknown

"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and slavery. It is we who control these, and not another." ~ Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are our gardeners." ~ William Shakespeare

"Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with." ~ Drew Sirtors

"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 druther not." ~ Mark Twain

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~ Robert Byrne

"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul." ~ Friedrich Schiller

"The wise and moral man shines like a fire on the hill top." ~ The Pali Canon

"It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road." ~ Author Unknown

"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise." ~ A.A. Milne

"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease." ~ V.L. Allineare

"Another link between the immune system and the nervous system is that the hormones and other chemicals that convey messages among nerve cells also “speak” to cells of the immune system. Indeed, some immune cells are able to manufacture typical nerve cell products. Moreover, the brain may send messages directly down nerve cells to the immune system. Networks of nerve fibers have been found connecting to the lymphoid organs." ~ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

"Emergency Health Powers have been enacted and the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) has been implemented to shield drug companies from any responsibility if things go wrong. And if the vaccine (swine) is really nothing new, and it really has been tested as much as it needs to be, then why was the PREP Act implemented by the Health and Human Services Secretary?" ~ Taken from the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal and Family Health, 10/15/09

"When the head aches, all the body is the worse." ~ English Proverb

"Make your feet your friend." ~ J.M. Barrie

"Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine." ~ Proverb