#heal

It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

I don't want to suggest that controlling pharmaceutical costs is the answer to what ails the U.S. health care system. It isn't. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#answer #care #controlling #costs #health

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health. ↗

— James Thomson

#bliss #exercise #health #principle #vital

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. ↗

— Allen Klein

#beneficial #both #deal #decided #discuss

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automatically #clever #culture #devised #guilt

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#kinds #literacy #marry #things #you

In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way of thinking about health care in terms of human need. [...] In other words, care for the sick is an economic burden only in health care systems where profit is the bottom line and public services are underfunded and politically unsupported - that is, systems in which only market logic is considered legitimate. ↗

— Julie Guthman

#health-care #obesity #food

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#because #being #care #children #country

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#health #idea #ill #implies #sickness

Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat. ↗

— John Robbins

#environment #food #health #food