Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

[L]ongevity in itself is not a basis for evolutionary selection — natural selection is not interested in us after we have finished child-bearing. – Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman, Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms th

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. – Sydney J. Harris