Star Jones Quotes

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.

I've learned to trust myself that I'm going to make healthy choices because I care about my health.

At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Doctors' positions and recommendations about drugs, procedures, surgical interventions, health and nutrition are not always based on strong scientific evidence.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.