Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.
Interpretation
Exercise and nutrition are both essential for a healthy lifestyle, working best in combination.
This quote emphasizes the importance of both exercise and nutrition in achieving overall health and fitness. By referring to exercise as 'king' and nutrition as 'queen', it highlights their equal importance and suggests that one cannot reign supreme without the other, ultimately leading to a 'kingdom' of health when both are prioritized together.
In practice
During a health seminar, one might say, 'As Jack Lalanne said, exercise is king and nutrition is queen - we must balance both for optimal health.'
How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple.
Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.
When I went through my confirmation hearing to serve as surgeon general they asked me what my priorities would be and I didn't list loneliness in that priority list because it was not one at the time.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
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