Herbanext Health Quotes

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates, 469-399 BC, Classical Greek philosoper

I firmly believe that in diet will be found the key to the solution of nine tenths of the social and political problems that vex our age and time.
Alexander Haig, M.D., famous English pathologist

Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates, 460 BC
370 BC, Greek physician, father of modern medicine

Nature cures, not the physician.
Hippocrates, 460 BC
370 BC, Greek physician, father of modern medicine

No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.
Maimonides, 1135-1204, Jewish philosopher

If it cannot be in your food, then it cannot be in your medicine.
Chinese Proverb

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
Ayurvedic Proverb

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang, 1895-1976, Chinese writer

If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.
Rockefeller Institute of Medicine Research

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
English Proverb

The only way a rich man can be healthy is by exercise and abstinence living like a poor man.
Sir William Temple 1628 - 1699

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Ecclesiasticus 38:4

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885

He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. 
Chinese Proverb

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Marcus Valerius Martial (March 1, between 38 and 41 AD - between 102 and 104 AD)

The nearest thing to perpetual motion is the heart. Guard it well. When it stops, you stop.
Author Unknown

Obesity is a widening problem.
Daniel Worona