Food Medicine Quotes

• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

  Ann Wigmore

  Motivational, Powerful, Food

  Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

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• Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Medicine, Healthy

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• The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

  Aphorism

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• Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

  Hippocrates

  Inspiring, Food, Ayurveda

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

  Hippocrates

  Fitness, Medicine, Fasting

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Food, Health

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Food, medicine, beauty, and love. When we talk about them in English,
  they seem so different from each other. But looking at them from
  another perspective, they are not so different. Good food is a part of
  good health. Good health leads to good looks. Love surrounds it all.
  When we feed or heal, we share love. When we love and are loved, we
  are beautiful.

  Alma Hogan Snell

  Beautiful, Beauty And Love, Medicine

  Alma Hogan Snell (2006). “A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

  Hippocrates

  Food, Yoga, Health

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Drinking, Air, Medicine

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Godly, Fighting

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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• In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies, housing, education - anything that's needed. Isn't that amazing? He finally comes up with a domestic agenda - and it's for Iraq. Maybe we could bring that here if it works out.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, People

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• People have amazing ideas. The main problem - I won't call it a problem, let's call it a roadblock - is if you use the analogy of a convoy of vehicles going to help a distress situation: they have all the resources needed (food, medicine, everything they need), and as the convoy is traveling, there's a rockslide. You can't get through the road. What good does any of that stuff do when you can't get it to where it needs to go?

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ideas, Medicine, People

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