Top 40 Health Quotations

Rather, it is being measured by a spectrum of health - a spectrum of health where one side of the extreme is death and the other is that of a healthy well-being, not just of being alive. So, taking that spectrum of nutrition health wellness as a basis, we may say that the healthier one is, the farther he is from death. In this matter, the passage of time is automatically included since one's heath would usually begin to deteriorate at a certain point in his age.

But even if the deterioration of health is inevitable as time as passes by (at least practically, but not theoretically), we can still do something with personal health nutrition wellness lifestyles and habits to slow down the deterioration of health in a number of ways - or rather in many ways that has to be integrated. Some of these nutrition health wellness improvement ways include proper physical activity, a healthy psychological disposition, and a carefully planned nutrition, with the last one being the focus of below.

Why the proper food is vital for health nutrition wellness and longevity? Our body is being fed and maintained by using different chemicals, primarily with oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, along with some other elements needed like calcium, iron, zinc, etc. All of these can only be taken from eating and drinking, or in other words, through nutrition, with the exception of oxygen which can be taken in by breathing. These chemicals are what promotes and helps both our mind and body function, so we could say that nutrition is the foundation and the corner of the health nutrition wellness triangle. This is because without proper nutrition, the body cannot have any form of energy needed to utilize its movements, thus hindering the possibility of having a proper physical exercise or wellness activity, thus decreasing health.

On the psychological part, a person without the proper nutrition needed by the mind wouldn't be capable of higher psychological processes, so the necessity of having a healthy psychological disposition also becomes far from achievement. But, it is important to take note in terms of one's own nutrition health wellness that scientists are also accepting the idea that the mind, particularly the consciousness of a person, is capable of over-riding its own design. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
--Redd Foxx

"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
--Dr. Thomas Fuller

"A Hospital is no place to be sick."
--Samuel Goldwyn

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
--Hannah Green

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."
--Thich Nhat Hanh

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

--Hippocrates

"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
-- Leigh Hunt

"The oneness of mind and body holds the secret of illness and health. "
--Arnold Hutschnecker

"Health is worth more than learning."
--Thomas Jefferson

"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
-- Benjamin Jowett

"One out of 4 people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends-if they seem okay, then you're the one."
--Ann Landers