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This definition was ratified during the first World Health Assembly and has not been modified since 1948. "Mens sana in corpore sano" (Juvenal) Physical fitness is good bodily health, and is the result of regular exercise, proper diet & nutrition, and proper rest for physical recovery. A strong indicator of the health of localized population is their height, which generally increases with improved nutrition and health care. This is also influenced by the standard of living and quality of life.... full article at wikipedia

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Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.		Unknown
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.	Wayne Dyer
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.	Jim Rohn
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.	Florence King
The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.	Mark Twain
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.	Herbert Spencer
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.	Benjamin Franklin
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.	Nathaniel Hawthorne
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.	Denis Waitley
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