Quotes about Health

“Food is the new health care.”

“We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.”

“The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.”

“You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.”

“I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.”

“If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.”

“Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.”

“Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.”

“The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.”

“When you talk about feminism, you're talking about the rights of all women and their families to live in dignity, peace, and security. It's about giving women access to health care and other basic rights.”

“It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.”

“Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.”

“To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

“When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.”

“Health and wellness does mean different things to different people.”

“We are convinced that universal health coverage, with strong primary care and essential financial protection, is the key to achieving the ambitious health targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and to avoiding impoverishment from exorbitant out-of-pocket health expenses.”

“The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.”

“Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.”

“In the world of medicine, a trial refers to clinical research that follows a predefined plan or protocol. A clinical trial must comply with strict health, safety and ethical regulations determined by the Food and Drug Administration.”

“Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.”

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”