Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. — Hippocrates
Food should be our medicine, not our poison. — Steven Gundry
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine. — Lin Yutang
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison — Ann Wigmore
When you eat, it’s vegetable, when you are sick, it’s medicine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. — Hippocrates
Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine! — Bernard Jensen
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. — Linus Pauling
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. — Philipus A. Paracelsus
Our tactics in Medicine 3.0 fall into five broad domains: exercise, nutrition, sleep, emotional health, and exogenous molecules, meaning drugs, hormones, or supplements. — Peter Attia
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting — Benjamin Franklin
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca The Elder
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca
Short Food Medicine Quotes
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. — Tim Minchin
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. — Ovid
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow
Good information is the best medicine. — Michael E. DeBakey
When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add. — Naval Ravikant
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism. — Vladimir Lenin
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies. — Albert Einstein
The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine. — William Osler
Food Medicine Image Quotes
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Treat Food Quotes
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. — Wendell Berry
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do. — Besse Cooper
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. — Pierre Dukan
It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food! — Jennifer Aniston
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. — Anthony Bourdain
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up. — Haruki Murakami
Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well. — Marianne Williamson
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. — Julia Child
Food As Medicine Quotes
I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room. — Elizabeth Lesser
Food is man's only truly reliable medicine and foods do cure, just the same as wrong foods and drinks may kill us. — Bernard Jensen
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. — Nikola Tesla
You don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well. — Chris Kilham
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy. — Sayings
Love Medicine Quotes
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. — Mother Teresa
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. — William Shakespeare
Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow. — Je Tsongkhapa
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors. — Moshe Feldenkrais
450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this. — Jane Elliott
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. — Rumi
I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I’m getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter’s been asking for some quite scary albums. — Donna Air
When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love. — Peace Pilgrim
I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don't stop the deforestation. — Chris Kilham
Medicine Quotes
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. — Abdul Kalam
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldous Huxley
Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. — Alexander Fleming
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron
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
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it — Maimonides
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates
Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver. — Roseanne Barr
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic. — Euell Gibbons
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. — P. G. Wodehouse
The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant. — Joe Rogan
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. — Robert Downey, Jr.
The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. — Henrik Ibsen
By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved. — Horst Rechelbacher
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine. — Jon Stewart
I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food. — Linus Pauling
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle. — Charles Spurgeon
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. — Henry David Thoreau
Health requires healthy food. — Roger Williams
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard. — Chanakya
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
What's sad is that nobody knows the constitution of the ecosystem that has just been destroyed. Is it an important future food? Is it an important medicine? What can it do for future generations - or present generations? — Horst Rechelbacher
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
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
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. — Luther Burbank
Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh. — Michael B. Jordan
Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy — Nelson Mandela
Satvajaya can decondition the mind so we can see things fresh, like with the eyes of a child. Satvajaya techniques rid us of negative emotions, thought patterns, and prejudices that may weigh us down like undigested food. — David Frawley
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise — Thomas A. Edison
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. — Mary Schmich
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal. — Chanakya
We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense;more knowledge but less judgements;more experts but more problems;more medicines, but less healthiness.We've been all the way to the moon and back,but we have trouble crossing the streetto meet the new neighbour.We build more computersto hold more information,to produce more copies than ever,but we have less communication.We have become long on quantitybut short on quality.These are times of fast foods,but slow digestion;tall man, but short character;steep profits, but shallow relationships.It is time when there is much in the windowbut nothing in the room. — Dalai Lama
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel. — Arne Garborg
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. — Henrik Ibsen
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven. — Unknown
There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. — Hernan Cortes
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. — Alice Walker
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. — Hippocrates
Food is medicine! We have forgotten that! — Daphne Oz
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