What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless read more

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad read more

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem
hominibus dando.]

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.

He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but
that we read more

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but
that we become whom we eat.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
[Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana read more

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
[Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and read more

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.