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Health Quotes
"You cannot use food to settle your emotional problem, you cannot use the food and make a deal with your emotion, sometimes you need to set your plates backward to settle your emotional issues. Don't let the devil fool you with the thinking that drinking excessive alcohol or eating without control will change your situation or anything that is going on around you, it can only complicate your issue by destroying your own body."
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"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small."
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"As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans."
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"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."
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"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."
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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
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"We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans."
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"The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active."
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"Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art."
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"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."
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"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."
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"The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse."
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"Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you."
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"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
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"We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions."
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"You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that."
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"As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation."
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"As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs."
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"All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care."
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"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
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"A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it."
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"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."
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"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."
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"We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs."
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"As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow."
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"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
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"Training is the word we use now. To train means to teach a particular skill over a period of time. Every time you get up, show up, work out, you are training yourself to be better, to live happier and healthier. Don't expect results in a snap. Remember, change takes however long it takes."
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"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick."
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"In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period."
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"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care."
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"If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors."
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"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."
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"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
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"You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care."
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"Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation."
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"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents."
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"Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it."
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"Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run."
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"We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
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