2,950 Quotes About Health

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

Seeing modern health care from the other side, I can say that it is clearly not set up for the patient. It is frequently a poor arrangement for doctors as well, but that does not mitigate how little the system accounts for the patient's best interest. Just when you are at your weakest and least able to make all the phone calls, traverse the maze of insurance, and plead for health-care referrals is that one time when you have to — your life may depend on it.

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.