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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: AIDS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CANCER CIGARETTES, CIGARS CURE DENTISTS DISABILITY DOCTORS DRUGS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE (CANADIAN) HOSPITALS ILLNESS MAD(NESS) MEDICINE MENTAL ILLNESS MIND (THE) PAIN PHYSICIANS PSYCHIATRY SICK SMOKING STRESS TOBACCO --- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. --Joseph Addison (1672—1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. In Joseph Collins _The Way with the Nerves: Letters to a Neurologist..._, p. 30 [1911]. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. --Arab proverb The cheerful live longest in life, and after it, in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshot of goodness. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. --James Burgh (1714—1775) Scottish author. He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday? --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Werner_ [1822], act i, sc. i Happiness lies, first of all, in health. --George William Curtis (1824—1892) American essayist, editor, and reformer. To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1733] Health is not valued till Sickness comes. --Thomas Fuller (1654—1734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. --Thomas C. Haliburton (1796—1865) Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a sympton of some ailment in the spiritual part. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The Scarlet Letter_ [1850] - The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is best. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [27 August 1786]. The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [6 July 1787]. - The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow. --Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864) English poet. Joy, temperance, and repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. --Arthur Murphy [pseudonym: Charles Ranger] (1727—1805) Irish actor and playright. 1. Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. 2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 4. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society—the social ramble ain't restful. 5. Avoid running at all times. 6. And don't look back—something might be gaining on you. --Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906—1982) American baseball pitcher in both the Negro Leagues and the Major League; inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1971. _How to Stay Young_ [1953] You remember what people say when they are sick? What do they say? That after all, nothing is pleasanter than health. But then they never knew this to be the greatest of pleasures until they were ill. --Plato (427?—347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. _The Republic_, Bk. IX He who laughs, lasts. --Mary Pettibone Poole Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. --Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825) German novelist. _Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces_ , ch. VIII. I have often noticed that a kindly, placid good- humor is the companion of longevity, and, I suspect, frequently the leading cause of it. --Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832) Scottish novelist and poet. In John Gibson Lockhart _Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott_ , p. 593 [1901]. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946) American-born man of letters. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. --Spanish proverb A man is as old as his arteries. --Thomas Sydenham (1624—1689) English physician recognized as a founder of clinical medicine and epidemiology. Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV [1928], p. 922. - You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. --Sir William Temple (1628—1699) English statesman and diplomat The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. --Sir William Temple (1628—1699) English statesman and diplomat. John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_, p. 169 [1829] - The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. -- HEALTH QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap. Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables? A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products. Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake? A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. So, bottoms up! Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio? A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc. Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program? A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good! Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you? A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!!. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. HELLO!!!!! In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you? Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle? A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach. Q: Is chocolate bad for me? A: Are you crazy? HELLO! Anybody home????? Cocoa beans! Yet another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around! Q: Is swimming good for your figure? A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me. Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle? A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape! Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets. And remember: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways — Chardonnay in one hand and a big hunk of chocolate in the other — body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!" ----- benign (adj.) 1. Having a kind and gentle disposition or appearance. 2. Not a threat to life or long-term health, especially by being noncancerous 3. Neutral or harmless in its effect or influence. cachexy (noun) [kę-'kek-si] 1/ Extremely bad state of health resulting from malnutrition, starvation; 2/ Sick or depraved way of thinking, mental malnourishment. embrocation (noun) [em-brę-'key-shęn] The act of rubbing a part of the body with liniment or lotion. etiolate (verb) ['ee-tee-ę-leyt] 1. To bleach or make pale, especially by depriving of light. 2. To make feeble or sickly. hale HAYL, adj.: Free from disease and weakening conditions; healthy. pandemic [pan-DEM-ik], adjective: Affecting a whole people or a number of countries. salubrious [suh-LOO-bree-us], adjective: Favorable to health; promoting health; healthful. salutary [SAL-yuh-ter-ee], adj.: 1. Producing or contributing to a beneficial effect; beneficial; advantageous. 2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health. Synonyms: beneficial, favorable, healthful. Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed during his sojourn in this country that America was teeming with such associations -- charities, choral groups, church study groups, book clubs -- and that they had a remarkably salutary effect on society, turning selfish individuals into public-spirited citizens. -- Fareed Zakaria, "Bigger Than the Family, Smaller Than the State," _New York Times_ [13 August 1995] valetudinarian [val-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un], noun: A weak or sickly person, especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health. adjective: 1. Sickly; weak; infirm. 2. Morbidly concerned with one's health. Ex.: Other than the Holy Scripture, he cared for no book as well as the book of decay, its truths written in the furrows scored on the brows of old men and women; in the sagging timbers of decrepit barns; in the lichenous masonry of derelict buildings; in the mangy fur of a valetudinarian lion. --Simon Schama, _Rembrandt's Eyes_ wan [WAHN], adjective: 1. Having a pale or sickly hue; pale; pallid. 2. Lacking vitality, as from weariness, illness, or unhappiness; feeble. 3. Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble. | HABIT - HANGOVER | HAPPINESS | HAPPY BIRTHDAY - HATE | HATS - HEAT | HEALTH | HEAVEN - HIPPOS | HISTORIANS & HISTORY | HITCHCOCK - HOLOCAUST | HOME - HOMETOWNS | HONESTY & HONOR | HOOVER - HOTELS | HOUSE - HUMAN NATURE | HUMAN RACE - HUMANITY | HUMILIATION - HURT | HUMOR | HURTING (SOMEONE) | HUSBANDS - HYPOCRISY | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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