Andrew Weil – Quotes Crazy

By keeping my hand in that, its the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. – Andrew Weil

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we cant, both our personal health and our economy are doomed. – Andrew Weil

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves dont create even more illness. – Andrew Weil

You cant afford to get sick, and you cant depend on the present health care system to keep you well. Its up to you to protect and maintain your bodys innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. – Andrew Weil

Clearly, Americas dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but its likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. – Andrew Weil

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. – Andrew Weil

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. – Andrew Weil

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men. – Andrew Weil

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S. – Andrew Weil

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks. – Andrew Weil

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying – as common sense sometimes impels us to do – can be hazardous to your health. – Andrew Weil

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. – Andrew Weil

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression. – Andrew Weil

I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency. – Andrew Weil

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear – integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies. – Andrew Weil

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise – that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on. – Andrew Weil

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil

In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life. – Andrew Weil