“Now, if you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014 this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from. Each state will take the lead in designing their own menu of options, and if states can come up…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.”— Adele, books.google.com
“My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”— Drew Barrymore, books.google.com
“Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Men have always loved me. My kids ain't never complained.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.ca
“It's an odd thing to think about, but try imagining that your breakup is a disease. If you were told that you had a serious yet curable disease, would you go get hammered on a regular basis? Eat two bags of Oreos? Chain-smoke, pop, pills, get stoned, or fuck around? NO YOU WOULDN'T. You would take g…”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“The researchers showed that programmers' stress levels were a better predictor of the quality (and thus the maintainability) of their code than the more costly process of code-review, where another programmer checks a colleague's work before it is put into production, in order to ensure that it will…”— Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
“On the morning of my forty-second birthday, I got a call from my mother. 'Happy birthday,' she said. 'Remember, your dad was forty-two when he had his first attack.' The men in my family don't tend to grow old. I think about that sometimes, when I see my teenage kids dig through the refrigerator in…”— Erik Prince, amazon.com
“The popular medical formulation of morality that goes back to Ariston of Chios, 'virtue is the health of the soul,' would have to be changed to become useful, at least to read: 'your virtue is the health of your soul.' For there is no health as such, and all attempts to define a thing that way have…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The point is that time is not neutral. Hours and minutes are not generic, but specific. We are better at doing some things in the morning and others in the evening. More incredible, those times of day change based on where we are in the twenty-eight-day moon cycle. In one week, we are more productiv…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“...we also have internal clocks, governed by less understood metabolic, hormonal, and glandular processes. We listen to those inner rhythms while simultaneously responding to external cues, from daylight and moon phases to the cycle of the seasons. Still other evidence suggests a complex set of rela…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com