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"Better health is an individual responsibility and an important national goal." President George W. Bush "I see a world where doctors heal our loved ones when they are sick, but focus more of their energies on keeping them well in the first place." Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services "For health benefits, adults need 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity on 5 or more days a week; youth aged 6 to 17 need 60 minutes. If there were a medication that conferred all of the health benefits of regular moderate physical activity, every doctor would prescribe it. Physical activity is the ultimate magic pill. Small steps add up to big results. Taking stairs instead of the elevator, going for a walk instead of a coffee break, parking the car further away from the office or shopping mall, sweeping the floor instead of vacuuming: all of these activities add up to better health." Melissa Johnson, Executive Director,
President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports "There is good news for all Americans. Scientific evidence shows that physical activity done at a moderate-intensity level can produce health benefits. If people have been sedentary, they can improve their health and well-being with regular, moderate levels of activity each day." Physical Activity and Health:
A Report of the Surgeon General, 1996. "All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labours in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well-developed and age more slowly, but if unused and left idle they become liable to disease, defective in growth, and age quickly." Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine "We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle "The first wealth is health." Ralph Waldo Emerson Back to top |
