The art is long, life is short
HippocratesRead
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
Interpretation
Food can lead to illness but can also serve as a remedy.
This quote by Hippocrates emphasizes the dual nature of food in our lives. While improper diets and unhealthy eating habits can lead to chronic diseases, adopting the right nutrition and making conscious food choices can profoundly influence our health, potentially serving as a powerful remedy and preventive measure against various ailments.
In practice
During a health seminar discussing nutrition and wellness.
The art is long, life is short
The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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