“Your prayer must be that you may have a sound mind in a sound body.”
Juvenal, c. 120 AD · Roman satirist
Chapter 7
On the Care of the Body
“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, and ye are not your own?”
Paul of Tarsus, c. 55 AD · apostle, writing to the church at Corinth
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Proverbs, c. 700 BC · Hebrew wisdom literature
“Eat ye and drink; but exceed not, for He loveth not those who exceed.”
The Qur'an, c. 632 AD · Islamic scripture
“Active exercise, therefore, and temperance can preserve some part of one's former strength even in old age.”
Cicero, c. 44 BC · Roman orator and statesman
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.”
Soren Kierkegaard, 1847 · Danish philosopher, writing to his niece Jette
“First rule of nursing, to keep the air within as pure as the air without.”
Florence Nightingale, 1859 · English nurse and reformer, founder of modern nursing
“After dinner sit awhile; before breakfast walk a mile.”
Traditional proverb, 1904 · collected saying on daily health
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
Traditional proverb, 1904 · collected saying on daily health
Pooling fifteen studies of nearly fifty thousand adults, researchers found that death rates kept falling as daily steps rose, then levelled off around six to eight thousand steps for people past sixty.
Amanda Paluch and the Steps for Health Collaborative, 2022 · physical activity epidemiologists, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the five places on earth where people most often reach a hundred, almost nobody goes to a gym. Their days are built so that gardening, walking and housework nudge them into movement every twenty minutes.
Dan Buettner and the Blue Zones project, 2016 · National Geographic longevity researchers
When a study that has followed the same people since 1938 looked at what best predicted their physical health decades later, it was not their cholesterol at fifty. It was how satisfied they were with their close relationships.
Robert Waldinger and the Harvard Study of Adult Development, 2017 · psychiatrist and study director, Harvard Medical School
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