Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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