2,950 Quotes About Health

We think about how our food will impact our bodies, but what about how it impacts our planet?

Societies work very hard to prevent people from seeing through the veil of myth, fantasy and propaganda which is used to hide the realities of health and disease. For example, the simple fact that the rich live longer and healthier lives than the poor is so easily ignored; society distracts us to consider instead the individual misfortunes and tragedies occurring to poor people.

If you think making your health and wellness a priority is expensive or a lot of work, try illness.

...despite seemingly scientific origins, dietary ideals are cultural, subjective, and political. While its primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to ‘eat right’ inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects, and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class.

Don't tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big your God is.

The pursuit of health became a means for professionalizing middle class of he late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to know and identify itself and to stake claims to responsibility and authority. Health became a key marker of middle-class morality and identity, but its utility as such derived in large part from the way it could distinguish members of the responsible middle class from those beneath them in the social hierarchy who failed to achieve the goal of health.

If a streetlight can make you sick, one can only wonder what exposure to a very high powered industrial LASER can do to you.

A wonderful organic cook as a partner makes for good health.

The true test of a radiation researcher is how well they can recover from the long term effects of radiation sickness.