Health Neglect Quotes

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

Testicular cancer occurs in young men, just the people who don't bother much about their health.

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

There's a lot of smart women doing dumb things with their health, and I fell into that category as well.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.

Have you ever seen that guy who has the record for fattest man in the world? Bob Hughes, the fattest man in the world... 1400 pounds. Ladies and gentlemen, the man has let himself go.

You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

I smoke as much as I want and chew tobacco a good deal of the time. I don't pay any attention to the rules for keeping in physical condition. I think they are a lot of bunk. The less you worry about the effect of tea and coffee on the lining of your stomach, the longer you will live, and the happier you will be.

When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it.

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

I overworked myself to a point of malnourishment.

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

With 'Batman,' I actually had a really bad period when we started 'Zero Year,' right at the beginning, I just wasn't taking care of myself at all. I was up too late all the time, I was working too hard. I wasn't exercising.

Healthy people are not very motivated to manage their health. They just don't care.

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.