I try to get as close to 10 hours of sleep each night, as sleep is the best form of recovery.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

You can change your body shape by permitting yourself to exercise and eat a healthy diet and so on - and we've heard miraculous stories of people who have lost hundreds of pounds, and they look like a...

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.

I had surgery on my core muscles. They were ripping apart.

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

Eating a small piece each of ginger, garlic and onion on an empty stomach can ward off health issues.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and...

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

Any strategy, policy call or future manifesto should not view a child's health through the narrow prism of what they eat, but put diet on an equal footing with mental health and physical activity.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Lifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer, especially in those carrying the BRCA mutation.

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically how could I not?

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.

Healthy people live with their world.

Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can...

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology...

There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40...

We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle...

In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the...