Health, Fitness & Wellness: Health Quotes

"Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's"

John Walters, Musician

"The best way to get better at falling asleep is to get better at waking up at the same time each day"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"Your brain and body need a signal that it's daytime, getting bright light into your eyes early in the day is the most powerful way to set your circadian clock"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis"

Sally Field, Actress

"She told me she had a note, somebody was sick"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"If one of us, any of us, any American, is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"I stand before you a totally healthy person"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped"

John Hersey, Writer

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself, if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes"

George Carman, Lawyer

"It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"I don't smoke pot. I never liked it"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"My body holds on to every part of every, you know, calorie that there is out there"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels"

John Hersey, Writer

"AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious"

Ice T, Musician

"This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it, my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face, and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in, it's like replacing a football in your stomach"

Evel Knievel, Entertainer

"Healthful whole foods improve our brain function, as well"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another"

June Carter Cash, Musician

"The orgasm is simply when the body does take over"

Betty Dodson, Educator

"But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

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