Health quotes

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Voters did say 'repeal health care, ' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.