Echoes

Excessive eating is like a deadly poison to the body and is a principal cause of all illness.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

To eat when you are sick is to feed your illness.

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.

An immoderate diet is unhealthy, but a temperate one preserves strength.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

As long as a person exercises, exerts himself greatly, does not eat to the point of being overly full, and keeps his bowels soft, illness will not come upon him and his strength will increase.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Walking is man's best medicine.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Anyone who lives a sedentary life and does not exercise, even if he eats good foods and takes care of himself according to proper medical principles — all his days will be painful ones and his strength shall wane.

The food which a temperate man leaves upon his plate is more beneficial than that which a glutton eats.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

One should not eat unless one is hungry, nor drink unless one is thirsty.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

A person should not eat until his stomach is full. Rather, he should eat until he has consumed approximately three quarters of his fill.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians of Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest, and not inferior to either in her mission.

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.