Wellness Promotion Quotes

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

This will be Michelle Obama's last opportunity to try to get me to eat kale.

I think the problem with the country is that we operate on a sickness model, not a wellness model... Basically, we treat people who become ill. What we don't do is do a very good job in keeping them healthy in the first place...

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives.

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy, that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

It [The Gesundheit Institute] also won't separate the healing arts. All of them work together - traditional medicine and surgery with acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. We want to make the hospital a place a person can't wait to come to, whether they are working there or being there as a patient. Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service. Those are some skeletal parts.

I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

I think it's healthy when fitness experts encourage fitness rather than getting a certain body shape.

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

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