- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health Quotes
Health is measured in more than numbers.
These quotes move between the personal and the civic - years spent caregiving for family, running as a way to protect mental health, and a bridge metaphor used to argue that a society's health depends on its weakest members, not its averages. See our Change Quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.
- Depress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
- Obsessive
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- Nov 07, 2020