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. . . [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: AIDS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CANCER CIGARETTES, CIGARS CURE DENTISTS DISABILITY DOCTORS DRUGS 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 (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. In Joseph Collins _The Way with the Nerves: Letters to a Neurologist..._, p. 30 [1911]. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. --"Anaconda Standard" (Montana) [23 December 1900] Note: According to Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006], "In 1866 'Notes and Queries' recorded "A Pembrokeshire Proverb" "Eat an apple on going to bed, And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.' " He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. --Arab proverb Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. --Dr. John Armstrong (17091779) Scottish poet. _The Art of Preserving Health_ [1744], bk. IV "The Passions" We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to no one in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. --Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist. _Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead_ [1985] The cheerful live longest in life, and after it, in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshot of goodness. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. Attributed in Charles Noel Douglas _Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical_, p. 249 [1917]. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. --Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th4th century B.C.) Founder of Buddhism. Attributed in _The Teaching of Buddha (the Buddhist Bible)_ [1934]. In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist, playwright, and politician. Quoted in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 127 [1896]. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. --James Burgh (17141775) Scottish author. The Dignity of Human Nature [1754] He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday? --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Werner_, I, i [1822] The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. _Characteristics_ [1831] A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _De senectute_ (On Old Age), IX [45-44 BC] - There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXXV [1820] True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, "Reflections", III [1821 ed.] - Happiness lies, first of all, in health. --George William Curtis (18241892) American essayist, editor, and reformer. In a letter from the collection _Lotus Eating_ [1852]. To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1733] Health is not valued till Sickness comes. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. --Thomas C. Haliburton (17961865) Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick. _Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances_ [2 vol., 1853] 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 (18041864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The Scarlet Letter_ [1850] - [H]appiness ... does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed [us], but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. _Notes on the State of Virginia_, Query XIV [1781-83] The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is best. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. 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 (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [6 July 1787]. - We never eat anybody's health, always drink it. Why should we not stand up now and then and eat a tart to somebody's success? --Jerome K. Jerome (18591927) English novelist and playwright. _The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; A Book for an Idle Holiday_ [1892] The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as the years close round us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrows. --Walter Savage Landor (17751864) English poet. "The Pentameron" in J. Forster (ed.) _The Works of Walter Savage Landor_ [2 vol., 1846]. - By too much sitting still, the body becomes unhealthy; and soon the mind. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_ [1839] Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. Quoted in Henry G. Bohn _A Dictionary of Quotations From the English Poets_, p. 375 [1867]. - Canadians don't deal with the same kind of health care problems and traumas we face. They have a health care system based on treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels. --attributed to P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947) American political satirist. 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 (19061982) American baseball pitcher in both the Negro Leagues and the Major League; inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1971. "How to Keep Young" in _Collier's_ [13 June 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 (fl. 1938) American writer. _A Glass Eye at a Keyhole_ [1938] Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. _Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces_ , ch. VIII. [1877 trans.] 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 (17711832) Scottish novelist and poet. In John Gibson Lockhart _Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott_ , p. 593 [1901]. It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Hippolytus_ Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" [1901] The ingredients of health and long life, are, Great temperance, open air, Easy labor, little care. --Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) English soldier, poet, and courtier. Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 221 [1908 ed.]. 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 (18651946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "Age and Death" Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families, where men live plentifully and eat and drink freely, that perfect health, that athletic soundness and vigor of constitution which is commonly seen in the country, in poor houses and cottages, where nature is their cook, and necessity their caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air, and that such a one as never sends them to the apothecary. --Bishop Robert South (16341716) English theologian and author. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ [1829]. 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 (16241689) English physician recognized as a founder of clinical medicine and epidemiology. Quoted in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV, p. 922. [1928]. - 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 (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. Quoted in _Encyclopaedia Perthensis_ [2nd ed., 1816] 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 (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_, p. 169 [1829]. & see: A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. _Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1761] - - 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] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. XLIX "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" Salt Lake City was healthy an extremely healthy city. They declared that there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having 'no visible means of support.' --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] - He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. --Marcus Terentius Varro (11627 B.C.) Roman polymath and man of letters. _De Re Rustica_, I, 2 [36 B.C.] He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience. --Izaak Walton (15931683) English writer. Attributed in Robert Chambers _Chamber's Cyclopζdia of English Literature_, p. 617 [1902]. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses. --Hans Zinsser (18781940) American bacteriologist. _Rats, Lice and History_, ch. 13 [1934] -- When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! --Motto, over the walls of a school in Germany, according to J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.) in _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 238 [1882]. -- 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) [kκ-'kek-si] 1/ Extremely bad state of health resulting from malnutrition, starvation; 2/ Sick or depraved way of thinking, mental malnourishment. embrocation (noun) [em-brκ-'key-shκn] The act of rubbing a part of the body with liniment or lotion. etiolate (verb) ['ee-tee-κ-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. 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. wan [WAHN], adjective: 1. Having a pale or sickly hue; pale; pallid. 2. 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