Quotes about Health

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

Howard Markel estimates that the total number of Americans who died of the 1918 pandemic was between 500,000 and 750,000; the

meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly...

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.