"My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life."   ~ Olivia Newton-John
 

 

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"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy."   ~ Author Unknown
 

"Most people believe that victory over the major infectious diseases of the last century came with the invention of vaccinations. In fact, most of these diseases were in a decline before vaccines were available - the result of better methods of sanitation and distribution of food and water."   ~ Andrew Weil, M.D.
 

""What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?"   ~ Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times
 

"You're only as young as your spine is flexible."   ~ Bob Harper
 

"Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other."   ~ Joseph Addison
 

"The best six doctors anywhere, and no one can deny it, are sunshine, water, rest and air, exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend, if only you are willing. Your mind they'll ease, your will they'll mend, and charge you not a shilling."   ~ Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, "What the River Knows," 1990
 

"Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary."   ~ Chinese Proverb
 

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."   ~ Burton Hillis
 

"Sugar is a type of bodily fuel, yes, but your body runs about as well on it as a car would."   ~ V.L. Allineare
 

"Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something."   ~ Lord Chesterfield
 

"O' pumpkin pie, your time has come 'round again and I am autumnrifically happy!"   ~ Terri Guillemets
 

"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
 

"Sometimes I get the feeling the aspirin companies are sponsoring my headaches."   ~ Terri Guillemets
 

"In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry."   ~ Margaret Laurence
 

"If we threw all of the drugs into the ocean, it would be a good day for man and a bad day for the fish."   ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
 

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

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health; I did it for the health of the chickens."   ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in "You Said a Mouthful," edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
 

"Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."   ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"The produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."   ~ Quote Garden
 

"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything."   ~ Arabic Proverb
 

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."   ~ Edward Stanley
 

"Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them."   ~ Martin H. Fischer
 

"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."   ~ Jackie Mason
 

"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 rather not."   ~ Mark Twain
 

Autopsies of people who have died of Alzheimer’s disease have revealed excessive amounts of aluminum in the brain tissue in areas of the brain related to abstract thinking, judgment, memory and language.
 

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."   ~ Lewis Grizzard
 

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

(Walking is) "good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed."   ~ Charles Schulz, Peanuts
 

"Life goes faster on protein."   ~ Martin H. Fischer
 

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."   ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
 

"Confidence and hope do more good than physic."   ~ Galen
 

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

"Nature is my medicine."   ~ Sara Moss-Wolfe
 

"If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you."   ~ Carrie Latet
 

"Hey Yogurt, if you are so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?"   ~ Stephen Colbert
 

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

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Thanksgiving Dinner. "I don't like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate."   ~ Author Unknown
 

"Cancer is a word, not a sentence."   ~ John Diamond
 

"I have fibromyalgia, which means that on any given day, I hurt all over. Sometimes it is a lot, sometimes a little, but every day I'm in some sort of pain."   ~ anonymous
 

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities."   ~ Daniel Webster
 

"They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable."   ~ Joan Mcintosh
 

"He who takes medicine and neglects his diet wastes the skill of his doctors."   ~ Chinese Proverb
 

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

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

"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
 

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