Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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