Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
Linus PaulingRead
If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Regular intake of vitamin C can reduce the likelihood of catching a cold and help mitigate symptoms if taken early.
Linus Pauling's quote emphasizes the benefits of vitamin C in relation to the common cold. He suggests that consistent consumption of this vitamin can lower the chances of developing a cold, and if symptoms do arise, taking vitamin C promptly can prevent the illness from worsening. This highlights the importance of proactive health measures and the role of nutrition in maintaining well-being.
Themes
Vitamin CColdHealthNutritionPrevention
In practice
Example use cases
During a health seminar, you might quote this to emphasize preventive care.
More from Linus Pauling
All quotes →Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.
Linus PaulingRead
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.
Linus PaulingRead
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
Linus PaulingRead
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
Linus PaulingRead
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
Linus PaulingRead
Similar quotes
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. KennedyRead
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
Ezra Taft BensonRead
I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.
Bernie SiegelRead
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?
David AgusRead
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
Terry PratchettRead