As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I have little bones.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

I love being active.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Precaution is better than cure.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.