For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.
I work out not to lose weight but to maintain my good health. And anyway, if I did want to lose weight, it would be no one’s decision but my own.
I feel like it’s important to talk about my health, which is fine, and my size because there are young girls who see someone like me and can validate their own existence.
As far as being a vegetarian, it’s a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing – a combination of all. I think it’s better to be that way.
I ate no butcher’s meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn’t work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
The small businesses that I’ve talked to have consistently said that the cost of health care is one of the things that they need the most help with.
Rising health care costs make it impossible to plan for the future, and that means it’s impossible to hire more people.
Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It’s as big a political issue as health care is.
I arrange my other activities around my workout. I have to organize my body, mind and health first.
We’re so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives – on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
We have to acknowledge that it goes both ways and that there’s many social factors which will impact negatively, as well as positively, on mental health.
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people’s services destroyed, they hate public health.
If some consumers believe that it’s better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people – good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That’s why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.
A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure – those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.
