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"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."
"One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality."
"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
"Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."
"First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture."
"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
"The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free."
"You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time."
"Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful."
"Treat the cause not the effect."
"Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination."
"All diseases begin in the gut."
"What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things."
"I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD."
"Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest."
"It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half"
"Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health."
"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
