Health is generally defined as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
In 1986, the WHO, in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, said that health is "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept...
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- CNN: Paging Dr. Gupta (video)
- Inside Martial Arts
- Live Your Highest Good With Louisa Latela
- Oprah.com's Spirit Channel
- Pilates on Fifth Video Podcast
- Brandon's Marathon
- ABC Answers with Dr Ron Podcast
- The Robert Scott Bell Show
- Get Psyched For Sports - Sports Psychology Podcast
- SUNDAY SOUL SESSIONS
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- Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
- You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
- Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
- The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.
- The 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.
- The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
- A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
- The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.