Monday, July 16, 2012

Quotes on Food and Health


"Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food" - Hippocrates

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn by his own thought to derive benefits from his illness." - Hippocrates

"One must eat to live and not live to eat." Moliere

"To eat an apple going to bed Will make the doctor beg for his bread." - Old Rhyme

"Land with lots of herring can get along with few doctors" Dutch proverb.

"Eat leeks in March and wild garlic in May And all year after, physicians may play." Old Welsh rhyme

"The right kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of health; and the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of disease." Robert McCarrison

"Every disease is a meaningful defensive measure on the part of the body, an attempt to compensate for damage caused by homotoxins. Therefore supporting the body's antihomotoxic efforts is the most effective and well tolerated form of treatment" Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (from Dr. C. E. V. Gonzales book on cancer prevention.) 
 
"eat a little, drink a little, meditate a little, serve a little, move a little, chant Gods name a little, mix a little, slow breathing a little, qigong a little, yoga, or taichi a little, fresh air a little, study a little,..."
Swami Shivananda.