Famous Quotes By Andrew Weil

 

1. A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
2. By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
3. Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
4. Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
5. Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
6. Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
7. Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
8. I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
9. I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
10. I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.
11. If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
12. It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
13. Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
14. Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
15. One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
16. The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
17. The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
18. The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
19. Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
20. You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.