2,950 Quotes About Health

Easy comes Easy goes is particularly true in the case of health.

But maintaining the primacy of the individual-lifestyle focus—without being transparent about larger influences—is an affront to people living in disadvantage, as it reduces their ill health to poor “choices”and blames them, all the while contributing to the stigma and judgmental thinking that fuels their oppression, worsens their health, and expands the health divide between the advantaged and disadvantaged.

The pharmaceutical industry, which has a vested interest in making us believe that fat is dangerous—and that they have a solution—wrote the BMI standards that are currently used.

The pharmaceutical industry, which has a vested interest in making us believe that fat is dangerous—and that they have a solution—wrote the BMI standards that are currently used.The derivation of children’s BMI standards was even worse. They were just arbitrarily assigned, without even the pretense of considering health data.

U.S. life expectancy has increased dramatically in the same time period in which our weight rose, rising from an average 70.8 years in 1970 to 78.7 years in 2011, and continues to hit record highs.

Its laser focus on the limited parameters of weight, diet, and exercise blinded us to other factors that affect metabolism and health, including the lived realities of inequality.

Eating is ecstasy; overeating is lunacy.

Generally speaking, children have a healthier, more rewarding attitude to life than adults.

Studies are showing that regular aerobic exercise can lift your mood, increase serotonin levels, relieve stress, and help you to sleep better. Swimming, dancing, biking, running, and even walking are excellent examples. Pick something you love and will be excited to do. Pick something you can incorporate into your lifestyle and schedule. Make regular exercise a habit.