Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
Interpretation
Good health enhances the enjoyment of food.
In this quote, Emerson emphasizes the importance of health and appetite in truly appreciating and enjoying the taste of food. Without good health, even the sweetest and most satisfying foods may lose their appeal, highlighting how vital our physical well-being is to our overall experience of lifeβs pleasures.
In practice
During a health seminar discussing the benefits of nutrition, this quote could be a great way to emphasize the importance of diet.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.
As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look younger. Imagine going to a doctor to get a pill for diabetes, and this same medicine will prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and will give you more vitality too.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.
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