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In 1948, the World Health Assembly defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This definition is still widely referenced, but is often supplemented by other World Health Organization (WHO) reports such as the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which in 1986 stated that health is “a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal... full article at wikipedia

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Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.		Unknown
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.	Wayne Dyer
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.	Jim Rohn
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.	Florence King
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.	Mark Twain
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.	Herbert Spencer
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.	Benjamin Franklin
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.	Nathaniel Hawthorne
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.	Denis Waitley
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