Echoes

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

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

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.

Those who are slaves to their appetites cannot preserve their reason, their memory, or their senses in their full vigour; for a full belly does not produce a fine mind.

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

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

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.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

Walking is man's best medicine.

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.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.