When it comes to getting and staying inspired, it is easy to get solace with endless reasons for staying healthy with inspiring quotes. These motivating quotations will surely help you see the brighter side of life, professional and personal.

One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. – Henry David Thoreau

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.  If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital. – Neal Barnard

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. – Thomas Browne

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. – Thomas de Quincey

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! – Unknown

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. – Christiaan Barnard

A new rule for middle-class and middle-age voters has suggested that young adults without health insurance will soon be able to remain on health care plan of their parents until they cross the age of 26 years.

It was, however, noted by the Obama administration that this provision is expected to help millions. The benefits, though, is proving less immediate than many families expected.

From Washingtonpost.com:

According to the law, health plans don’t have to comply until their first renewal date after Sept. 23. For some plans, that’s as soon as October. For many, it’s January. For others, the compliance date won’t be until May.

That means many college seniors whose parents’ health plans allowed them to stay on until they graduated this spring may face a gap in coverage until the new requirement kicks in.

Soon after the law was passed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on insurers to close the gap by complying with the law early in such cases. More than 60 major insurance companies and several large employers agreed to do so.

But just because an insurer offers to keep new graduates on the plan doesn’t mean the employer subscribing to the plan will take the insurer up on the option.

Experts are of the view that parents as employers and insurance companies will continue getting more rude awakenings in times to come once the need to offset the added costs of covering these workers’ children longer into adulthood will arise.

If you have been looking for quotations on health, this blog with quotes for healthy mind and body will surely give you endless reasons to smile and stay inspired.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street. – Neil Armstrong

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it.  Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. – Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more. – Patricia Walden

The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what’s been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga – the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body – you initiate a process that turns the fight-or-flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms. – Richard Faulds

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. – James H. West

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live.  But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emotional pains suffered by human beings in childhood could result in weakened immune systems in the later period of life, according to a new study.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, said that childhood abuse can have a serious impact on immune system functioning in the latter part of life.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Forty-four percent of them served as primary caregivers for family members suffering from dementia, while 56 percent were non-caregivers.

The researchers took blood samples from each person measuring the levels of two cytokines known to be stress markers – interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF).

They also used a series of surveys to determine the participants’ level of depression, health status, health behaviors and whether they had experienced childhood abuse or neglect.

The surveys also looked for adverse events as kids such as the loss of a parent, serious marital problems between parents, or mental illness or alcoholism within their family.

Lastly, from the blood samples they were able to measure the lengths of telomeres, bits of DNA on the ends of chromosomes.

“Every time a cell divides, it loses a little bit of its DNA at the ends. So the faster that process takes place, the more DNA is lost, and that’s significant,” said Glaser.

The findings were explained at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in San Diego.

If you have been left impressed after reading success stories of emotional freedom technique (EFT) or ability of EFT to manage and treat severe health complications such as asthma and nervous disorders, this piece of information will help you understand what EFT is all about.

Emotional freedom technique or EFT can be described as an alternative psychotherapy that can be termed as acupuncture without needles or mind body medicine in the form of positive affirmations to wipe out negative energy and regulate energy fields of the body. This technique is safe and can be practiced at any point of time by people of all ages. It is, however, highly recommended that advice of EFT experts must be taken before initiating the process.

EFT involves tapping on different parts of the body (top of head, beginning of eyebrow, side of eye, under eye, under nose, chin, collar bone, under arm, inside wrist, and the karate chop) while making use of specific verbalizations for minimizing or eliminating all kinds of pains, suffering, and distress. The entire technique is quite simple and basics of EFT are easy to learn. It is worthwhile to note here that emotional freedom technique works with energy system of the body that has an influence on the body or meridians.

How EFT works?

EFT or emotional freedom technique is all about tapping specific points of the body, as discussed above, for stimulating the free flow of energy through the meridians so that neuroreceptors beneath the skin can facilitate the conversion of pressure to an electrical impulse to be transmitted to the brain. Increased flow of healing energy has the unique ability of healing the mind and body and severe health complications such as addictive cravings, negative memories, nightmares, pain, public speaking, performing in public, claustrophobia, and dyslexia can be effectively treated.

We hope that this information on EFT or emotional freedom technique was useful in developing a clear and complete understanding.

Adolescents and young adults are nurturing habits of imbalanced food that include too much unhealthy fat, according to a study conducted among school and college students in Delhi by scientists from the National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Disorders Foundation (NDOCDF) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Dr Anoop Misra, lead scientist and director at Fortis Hospital’s department of diabetes and metabolic diseases, said that this unhealthy trend explains the higher prevalence of obesity and abdomen fat deposit in the Asian adolescent.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Consumption of harmful saturated fat and omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids was high among the students. But consumption of the healthy omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, or omega 3 PUFA, was low.

This is because a large part of the fat consumed was derived from semi-solid oil and cooking oil heated to high temperatures.

Both are used in the preparation of favourite snacks of students such as burgers, pastries patties, samosa and chhola bhatura.

” The students are in the habit of snacking. They study for an hour and then snack on biscuits and namkeen. They were also consuming ice creams and sugary items such as colas,” Shah said.

The intake of carbohydrates and proteins was, however, found to be within the prescribed limit.

Fat takes more time to get digested and gets deposited in the body, leading to obesity which results in hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.

Obesity and insulin resistance is now being reported often among Asian adolescents.

The study has been published in the Journal of American College of Nutrition.