Health

• 1 Nephi 17:3…If we keep commandments, Lord gives us health
• Mormon 5:7…Exercise or die!
• Mormon 9:24…With Christ’s help, food or drink can’t hurt us
• D&C 84:33…How to receive energy
• D&C 90:18…Clean your house!
• President Brigham Young said, “Work less, wear less, eat less, and we shall be a great deal wiser, healthier, and wealthier people than by taking the course we now do.”
• “When Shauna and I go out to dinner, especially if we’re in just the right restaurant, I will say toward the end of the meal, “Sweetheart, shall we have some coconut pie?”  She will smile, sigh, and then say, “no, you go ahead.  I’m fine.” …A few times I have argued with her about her discipline.  “But you love coconut cream, don’t you?”  She will respond calmly, “You know I do, but I don’t need any now.”  I come back with, “I know you don’t need it.  Nobody needs it.  But I want it.  Don’t you?”  And then she brings our conversation to an end with, “Yes, I want it, but I want some things more.  I want to avoid obesity, to be able to wear my clothes, to have good health, and to watch my grandkids grow up.  Besides, I know that in thirty minutes I’ll regret having eaten the pie.  It’s just not worth the five minutes of enjoyment.”  (Men of Influence, 44-45)
• “Cut down on television watching and instead spend the time with your family, read, exercise, or do something else that enhances the quality of your life.”  Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 35
• “At the heart of the Newtonian time crunch is a dualistic split: we are deluded into thinking that time is “out there,” an actual physical entity that can put pressure on us “in here.” That’s ridiculous, of course, but try to tell that to a patient in a cardiologist’s office. As Meyer Friedman, MD, pointed out in his classic book, Type A Behavior and Your Heart, typical heart patients have a marked sense of time urgency. They’re in a race with time, and their hearts show the wear and tear of it…..Newtonian dualism pits us against time. In this paradigm, we think of time as the master and us as its slave. At the extreme, time becomes our persecutor, and we think of ourselves as its victim. Since time feels like an ever-present entity hovering in the background of our lives, we come to feel that we’re victims of an entity that’s always there, all the time. Such a view is dangerous to our health, disastrous for our business, and ruinous to our relationships with family and friends. That’s why I urge you to adopt Einstein Time. Not only is it a new paradigm; it can literally be a lifesaver.”  The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level (Gay Hendricks)- Highlight on Page 167
• “In 80 percent or more of cases, people have three goals in common:  first, a financial and career goal; second, a family or personal relationship goal; and third, a health or a fitness goal.”  Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 51
• “To accomplish a great task, you must step out in faith and have complete confidence that your next step will soon become clear to you.  Remember this wonderful advice.  “Leap- and the net will appear!”  A great life or great career is built by performing one task at a time, quickly and well, and then going on to the next task.  Financial independence is achieved by saving a little money every single month, year after year.  Health and fitness are accomplished by just eating a little less and exercising a little more, day after day, and month after month.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 61
• “In addition to getting lots of rest, to keep your energy levels at their highest, be careful about what you eat.  Start the day with high-protein, low-fat, and low-carbohydrate breakfast.  Eat salads with fish or chicken at lunch.  Avoid sugar, salt, white-flour products, and desserts.  Avoid soft drinks, candy bars, and pastries.  Feed yourself as you would feed a world-class athlete before a competition because in many respects, that’s what you are before starting work each day.  Aim to exercise about 200 minutes each week, the agreed-upon standard for excellent levels of fitness.  This is equal to about thirty minutes per day and can be achieved by going for a walk before or after work or by walking short stretches during the day.  You can swim, use exercise equipment, or play sports, but build exercise into your daily routine, just as if it were a business appointment.  By eating lean and healthy, exercising regularly, getting lots of rest, you’ll get more and better work done easier and with greater satisfaction than ever before.”  Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 83
• “In this same vein may I address an even more sensitive subject. I plead with you to please be more accepting of yourself, including your body shape and style, with a little less longing to look like someone else. We are all different. Some are tall, and some are short. Some are round, and some are thin. And almost everyone at some time or other wants to be something he or she is not! But as one adviser to teenage girls said: “You can’t live your life worrying that the world is staring at you. When you let people’s opinions make you self-conscious you give away your power. . . . The key to feeling [confident] is to always listen to your inner self—[the real you.]” And in the kingdom of God, the real you is “more precious than rubies” (Proverbs 3:15). Every young woman is a child of destiny and every adult woman a powerful force for good. I mention adult women because they are our greatest examples and resource for these young women. And if a woman is obsessing over being a size 2, she won’t be very surprised when her daughter or the Mia Maid in her class does the same and makes herself physically ill trying to accomplish it. We should all be as fit as we can be—that’s good Word of Wisdom doctrine. That means eating right and exercising and helping our bodies function at their optimum strength. We could probably all do better in that regard. But I speak here of optimum health; there is no universal optimum size.”  Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland) Kindle Loc. 408-18
• “In terms of preoccupation with self and a fixation on the physical, this is more than social insanity; it is spiritually destructive, and it accounts for much of the unhappiness women, including young women, face in the modern world. And if adults are preoccupied with appearance—tucking and nipping and implanting and remodeling everything that can be remodeled—those pressures and anxieties will certainly seep through to children. At some point the problem becomes what the Book of Mormon called “vain imaginations” (1 Nephi 12:18). And in secular society both vanity and imagination run wild. One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end of the day there would still be those “in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers” as Lehi saw (1 Nephi 8:27), because however much one tries in the world of glamour and fashion, it will never be glamorous enough.”  Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland) Kindle Loc. 422-29
• “Let’s look at some of the ways we don’t love ourselves: We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate on things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
• “My personal nutritional approach is simple. If it grows, eat it. If it doesn’t grow, don’t eat it.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 45
• “Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.”  Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.  Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty.  Page 309
• “Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature heart attacks in the United States. Imagine that—overeating is worse for you than smoking a pack a day. We’ve forced the smokers out of our restaurants and onto the sidewalk to light up, and yet you can still order an appetizer off the menu that delivers a day’s worth of calories and enough grease to turn your colon into a Roman candle. Go figure.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xii
• “Sixty-seven percent of the population—142 million Americans—are overweight or obese. And a new forecast by University of Chicago researchers estimates that the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years to 44.1 million people.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xii
•  “Belly fat—the fat that pushes your waist out—is the most dangerous fat on your body. And it’s one of the reasons why the Abs Diet emphasizes losing belly fat—because doing so means you’ll live longer. Belly fat is classified as visceral fat; that means it is located behind your abdominal wall and surrounds your internal organs. Because it carries an express-lane pass to your heart and other important organs, visceral fat is the fat that can kill you. Just consider one University of Alabama-Birmingham study in which researchers used seven different measurements to determine a person’s risks of cardiovascular disease. They concluded that the amount of visceral fat the subjects carried was the single best predictor of heart disease risk.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xiii
• “One pound of muscle requires your body to burn up to 50 extra calories a day just to maintain that muscle.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xv
• “Video games have displaced a major activity in the lives of teenage boys, but that activity isn’t reading; it’s playing outdoors. In 1980, many boys spent lots of time playing outdoors. Today, those boys are more likely to spend that time indoors with the GameCube or the PlayStation or the Xbox. That may be one reason why boys today are four times more likely to be obese compared with boys a generation ago.”  Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax)  Page 38
• “Moderation in all things is the key to good health.”  Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax)  Page 58
• “Overweight people are: 50 percent more likely to develop heart disease (obese: up to 100 percent) Up to 360 percent more likely to develop diabetes (obese: up to 1,020 percent) 16 percent more likely to die of a first heart attack (obese: 49 percent) Roughly 50 percent more likely to have total cholesterol above 250 (obese: up to 122 percent) 14 percent less attractive to the opposite sex (obese: 43 percent) Likely to spend 37 percent more a year at the pharmacy (obese: 105 percent) Likely to stay 19 percent longer in the hospital (obese: 49 percent) 20 percent more likely to have asthma (obese: 50 percent) Up to 31 percent more likely to die of any cause (obese: 62 percent) 19 percent more likely to die in a car crash (obese: 37 percent) 120 percent more likely to develop stomach cancer (obese: 330 percent) Up to 90 percent more likely to develop gallstones (obese: up to 150 percent) 590 percent more likely to develop esophageal cancer (obese: 1,520 percent) 35 percent more likely to develop kidney cancer (obese: 70 percent) 14 percent more likely to have osteoarthritis (obese: 34 percent) 70 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure (obese: up to 170 percent)”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Paige 4
• “Weigh yourself. Checking the scale can be motivating. In a study of 3,500 people who maintained 60 or more pounds of weight loss for at least a year, researchers from the National Weight Control Registry found that 44 percent weighed themselves every day. Another study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that overweight people are six times more likely to lose weight if they weigh themselves at least once a day.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Paige 6.
• “In any case, abdominal fat doesn’t just sit there and do nothing; it’s active. It functions like a separate organ, releasing substances that can be harmful to your body. For instance, it releases free fatty acids that impair your ability to break down the hormone insulin (too much insulin in your system can lead to diabetes). Fat also secretes substances that increase your risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as the stress hormone cortisol (high levels of cortisol are also associated with diabetes and obesity as well as with high blood pressure). Abdominal fat bears the blame for many health problems because it resides within striking distance of your heart, liver, and other organs—pressing on them, feeding them poisons, and messing with their daily function.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page11
• “A flat stomach is the hallmark of people in control of their bodies and, as such, in control of their health.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page12
• “When you’re in great shape, you’re telling the world that you’re a disciplined, motivated, confident, and healthy person—and hence a desirable partner.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page13
• “A Canadian study of more than 8,000 people found that over 13 years, the people with the weakest abdominal muscles had a death rate more than twice as high as those with the strongest midsections.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page13
• “When Dutch researchers studied nearly 6,000 men, they found that those whose waistlines measured 37 to 40 inches had a significantly increased risk of respiratory problems, such as wheezing, chronic coughing, and shortness of breath.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page 15
• “When you pack on extra padding around your gut, your heart pumps harder to force blood into all that new fatty tissue. When you nosh on potato chips and other high-sodium foods, your body retains water in order to dilute the excess sodium, increasing overall blood volume. When you line your arteries with plaque from too many fatty meals, pressure increases as the same amount of blood has to squeeze through newly narrowed vessels. When you let the pressures of the day haunt you into the night, your brain pumps out stress hormones that keep your body in a perpetual state of fight-or-flight anxiousness, also forcing your heart to pump harder. High-salt, high-fat diets and an excess of stress all combine to create a dangerous situation.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (DavidZinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page 22
• “THIS SIMPLE SHOPPING LIST will give you everything you need to dive right into the New Abs Diet and the New Abs Diet Workout. BUY ONCE Blender Ground flaxseed, 1 pint Multivitamins, such as Centrum, 1 jar BASIC SHOPPING LIST—THE ABS DIET POWER 12 AND RELATED FOODS Almonds, slivered or whole Beans of choice Spinach, fresh or frozen Dairy (fat-free or low-fat milk and vanilla yogurt) Instant oatmeal (unsweetened, unflavored) Eggs Turkey, sliced Peanut butter, all-natural (no added sugar) Olive oil Whole-grain breads and cereals Extra-protein (whey) powder, vanilla and chocolate, 1-quart containers Raspberries, fresh and frozen Plus: Black beans Blueberries, frozen Canned tuna Cannellini beans Chicken breast Craisins (dried, sweetened cranberries) Garbanzo beans Grapefruit Green vegetables of choice Italian salad greens Lean ground beef Long-grain rice Mixed greens Pecans Pine nuts Roasted cashews and peanuts, unsalted Shrimp, frozen Strawberries, fresh or frozen Trout, smoked salmon, or other lean fish of choice Whole-wheat pasta SHOPPING LIST-INGREDIENTS FOR RECIPES (SEE RECIPES FOR INDIVIDUAL AMOUNTS) Avocado Baby carrots Balsamic and red wine vinegars Bananas Barbecue sauce Basil Beef jerky Brown rice Canadian bacon Canned chicken stock Canned mandarin orange slices Canned peeled tomatoes Canned pumpkin Cantaloupe Carnation Instant Breakfast packets Cayenne pepper Celery Chili powder Chives Chocolate syrup Cilantro Cinnamon Corn, frozen Cornmeal Cucumber Curry powder Dijon mustard Dried chili mix Fat-free mayonnaise Flat bread Flour French baguette French green beans Fresh ginger Garlic Green and red bell peppers Ground buffalo Guacamole Housin sauce Honey Honeydew melon Honey-wheat English muffins Instant grits Italian-seasoned bread crumbs Italian seasoning Jalapeño peppers Ketchup Lean sirloin steak Lean sliced roast beef Lemons and limes Lemon juice concentrate, frozen Low-fat balsamic vinaigrette, ranch, and Thousand Island salad dressings Low-fat ice cream (vanilla and butter pecan) Low-fat Italian salad dressing packet Maple syrup Mexican-style tomatoes Mint, fresh or dried Mushrooms Navy beans Onions, green, red, and white Onion soup mix Orange juice Oranges Oregano Paprika Parsley Peanut oil Pork chops, boneless Portobello mushrooms Prosciutto Red pepper flakes Reduced-fat cheese (American, blue cheese, Cheddar, cottage, cream, feta, mozzarella, ricotta, Swiss) Raisin bread Raisins Red and Granny Smith apples Reduced-sodium soy sauce Roasted red peppers Romaine lettuce Rosemary Rye bread Salsa Saltine crackers or bread crumbs Sauerkraut Spaghetti sauce Stir-fry sauce Steel-cut oats Sweet corn Tabasco sauce Tomatoes Tomato sauce Tortilla chips Trans fat-free margarine Turkey bacon Turkey sausage Watermelon Whole-wheat pitas Whole-wheat toaster waffles Whole-wheat tortillas Worcestershire sauce”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and TedSpiker).  Page 26
• “THE HEAD represents us. It is what we show the world. It is how we are usually recognized. When something is wrong in the head area, it usually means we feel something is very wrong with “us.””  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
• “THE HAIR represents strength. When we are tense and afraid, we often create those bands of steel that originate in the shoulder muscles and come up over the top of the head and sometimes even down around the eyes. The hair shaft grows up through the hair follicle. When there is a lot of tension in the scalp, the hair shaft can be squeezed so tightly that the hair can no longer breathe, and it dies and falls out. If this tension is continued, and the scalp is not relaxed, then the follicle remains so tight that the new hair cannot grow through. The result is baldness. Female baldness has been on the increase ever since women have begun entering the “business world” with all its tensions and frustrations.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
• “THE EARS represent the capacity to hear. When there are problems with the ears, it usually means something is going on you do not want to hear.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 124
• “THE EYES represent the capacity to see. When there are problems with the eyes, it usually means there is something we do not want to see, either about ourselves or about life: past, present, or future. Whenever I see small children wearing glasses, I know there is stuff going on in their household they do not want to look at. If they can’t change the experience, they will diffuse the sight so they don’t have to see it so clearly. Many people have had dramatic healing experiences when they have been willing to go back into the past and clean up what it was they did not want to look at a year or two before they began wearing glasses. Are you negating what’s happening right now? What don’t you want to face? Are you afraid to see the present or the future? If you could see clearly, what would you see that you don’t see now? Can you see what you are doing to yourself?”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “HEADACHES come from invalidating the self. The next time you get a headache, stop and ask yourself where and how you have just made yourself wrong. Forgive yourself, let it go, and the headache will dissolve back into the nothingness from where it came.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create a lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved.”  You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 125
• “SINUS problems, felt right in the face and so close to the nose, represent being irritated by someone in your life, someone who is close to you. You might even feel they are bearing down on you.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “THE NECK AND THROAT are fascinating because so much “stuff” goes on there. The neck represents the ability to be flexible in our thinking, to see the other side of a question, and to see another person’s viewpoint. When there are problems with the neck, it usually means we are being stubborn about our own concept of a situation.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “THE THROAT represents our ability to “speak up” for ourselves, to “ask for what we want,” to say “I am,” etc. When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves. Sore throats are always anger. If a cold is involved, then there is mental confusion, too. LARYNGITIS usually means you are so angry you cannot speak.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “The throat also represents the creative flow in the body. This is where we express our creativity, and when our creativity is stifled and frustrated, we often have throat problems. We all know many people who live their whole lives for others. They never once get to do what they want to do. They are always pleasing mothers/fathers/ spouses/lovers/bosses. TONSILLITIS and THYROID problems are just frustrated creativity, resulting from not being able to do what you want to do.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 127
• “THE ARMS represent our ability and capacity to embrace the experiences of life. The upper arms have to do with our capacity, and the lower arms have to do with our abilities.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 127
• “THE FINGERS each have meaning. Problems in the fingers show where you need to relax and let go. If you cut your index finger, there is probably anger and fear that has to do with your ego in some current situation. The thumb is mental and represents worry. The index finger is the ego and fear. The middle finger has to do with sex and with anger. When you are angry, hold your middle finger and watch the anger dissolve. Hold the right finger if your anger is at a man and the left if it is at a woman. The ring finger is both unions and grief. The little finger has to do with the family and pretending.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 127
• “Do you feel real “burnt out”? Are your finances in a mess, or do you worry about them excessively? Then your lower back may be bothering you. The lack of money or the fear of money will do it. The amount you have has nothing to do with it.”  You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 128
• “Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last three minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 128
• “THE LUNGS represent our capacity to take in and give out life. Problems with the lungs usually mean we are afraid to take in life, or perhaps we feel we do not have the right to live life fully. Women have traditionally been very shallow breathers and have often thought of themselves as second-class citizens who did not have the right to take up space and sometimes not even the right to live. Today, this is all changing. Women are taking their place as full members of society and breathing deeply and fully.”  You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 128
• “Emphysema and heavy smoking are ways of denying life. They mask a deep feeling of being totally unworthy of existing. Scolding will not change the habit of smoking. It is the basic belief that must change first.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
• “THE BREASTS represent the mothering principle. When there are problems with the breasts, it usually means we are “over-mothering” either a person, a place, a thing, or an experience. Part of the mothering process is to allow the child to “grow up.” We need to know when to take our hands off, when to turn over the reins and let them be. Being overprotective does not prepare the other person to handle his or her own experience. Sometimes our “overbearing” attitudes literally cut off nourishment in a situation.”  You Can Heal Your Life(Louise Hay) Page 129
• “If cancer is involved, then there is also deep resentment. Release the fear and know the Intelligence of the Universe resides in each one of us.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
• “THE HEART, of course, represents love, while our blood represents joy. Our hearts lovingly pump joy throughout our bodies. When we deny ourselves joy and love, the heart shrivels and becomes cold. As a result, the blood gets sluggish, and we creep our way to ANEMIA, ANGINA, and HEART ATTACKS. The heart does not “attack” us. We get so caught up in the soap opera and dramas we create that we often forget to notice the little joys that surround us. We spend years squeezing all the joy out of the heart, and it literally falls over in pain. Heart attack people are never joyous people. If they do not take the time to appreciate the joys of life, they will just recreate another heart attack in time.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
• “When there are stomach problems, it usually means we don’t know how to assimilate the new experience. We are afraid.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
• “ULCERS are no more than fear — tremendous fear of “not being good enough.” We fear not being good enough for a parent, we fear not being good enough for a boss. We can’t stomach who we are. We rip our guts apart trying to please others. No matter how important our job is, our inner self-esteem is very low. We are afraid they will find out about us.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 129
• “The next time you have a knee problem, ask yourself where you are being self-righteous, where you are refusing to bend. Drop the stubbornness and let go. Life is flow, life is movement; and to be comfortable, we must be flexible and move with it. A willow tree bends and sways and flows with the wind and is always graceful and at ease with life.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 135
• “ACCIDENTS are no accident. Like everything else in our lives, we create them. It’s not that we necessarily say, “I want to have an accident,” but we do have the mental thought patterns that can attract an accident to us. Some people seem to be “accident prone,” and others go for a lifetime without ever getting a scratch. Accidents are expressions of anger. They indicate built-up frustrations resulting from not feeling the freedom to speak up for one’s self. Accidents also indicate rebellion against authority. We get so mad we want to hit people, and instead, we get hit. When we are angry at ourselves, when we feel guilty, when we feel the need for punishment, an accident is a marvelous way of taking care of that. It seems as though any accident is not our fault, that we are helpless victims of a quirk of fate. An accident allows us to turn to others for sympathy and attention. We get our wounds bathed and attended to. We often get bedrest, sometimes for an extended period of time. And we get pain. Where this pain occurs in the body gives us a clue to which area of life we feel guilty about. The degree of physical damage lets us know how severely we felt we needed to be punished and how long the sentence should be.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 138
• “Also different in today’s NFL is the purpose of training camp. Years ago, offensive linemen arrived in camp with huge potbellies. Plenty of players smoked. They used camp to get in shape, although you would never know it by what they ate once they arrived, the most unhealthy food one could imagine. The training tables now list the grams of fat and carbs and the number of calories in every appetizer, main course, and dessert, and with the money they could lose, few players risk reporting in poor condition. They rest for a week or two after the season ends and go back to their private gym or the team’s indoor facility. There is no off-season.”  The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game (Steinberg, Leigh;Arkush, Michael)–page 241
• D&C 84:33 -35…  For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies. 34  They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God. 35 And also all they who receive this priesthood receive me, saith the Lord;
• “President Boyd K. Packer has taught “that our spirit and our body are combined in such a way that our body becomes an instrument of our mind and the foundation of our character” (“The Instrument of Your Mind and the Foundation of Your Character” [Church Educational System fireside, Feb. 2, 2003], 2; speeches.byu.edu ). Therefore, please use good judgment in what and especially how much you eat, and regularly give your body the exercise it needs and deserves. If you are physically able, decide today to be the master of your own house and begin a regular, long-term exercise program, suited to your abilities, combined with a healthier diet. Spiritual confidence increases when your spirit, with the help of the Savior, is truly in charge of your natural man or woman.” Jörg Klebingat, October 2014 General Conference
• “According to the National Institutes of Health, a waistline larger than 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women signals significant risk of heart disease and diabetes.”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page 13
• “Migraine headaches are created by people who want to be perfect and who create a lot of pressure on themselves. A lot of suppressed anger is involved.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 125
• “Let’s look at some of the ways we don’t love ourselves: We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate on things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us.”  You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
• “Overweight people are: 50 percent more likely to develop heart disease (obese: up to 100 percent) Up to 360 percent more likely to develop diabetes (obese: up to 1,020 percent) 16 percent more likely to die of a first heart attack (obese: 49 percent) Roughly 50 percent more likely to have total cholesterol above 250 (obese: up to 122 percent) 14 percent less attractive to the opposite sex (obese: 43 percent) Likely to spend 37 percent more a year at the pharmacy (obese: 105 percent) Likely to stay 19 percent longer in the hospital (obese: 49 percent) 20 percent more likely to have asthma (obese: 50 percent) Up to 31 percent more likely to die of any cause (obese: 62 percent) 19 percent more likely to die in a car crash (obese: 37 percent) 120 percent more likely to develop stomach cancer (obese: 330 percent) Up to 90 percent more likely to develop gallstones (obese: up to 150 percent) 590 percent more likely to develop esophageal cancer (obese: 1,520 percent) 35 percent more likely to develop kidney cancer (obese: 70 percent) 14 percent more likely to have osteoarthritis (obese: 34 percent) 70 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure (obese: up to 170 percent)”  The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker).  Page 4
• “We know not what lies ahead of us. We know not what the coming days will bring. We live in a world of uncertainty. For some, there will be great accomplishment. For others, disappointment. For some, much of rejoicing and gladness, good health, and gracious living. For others, perhaps sickness and a measure of sorrow. We do not know. But one thing we do know. Like the polar star in the heavens, regardless of what the future holds, there stands the Redeemer of the world, the Son of God, certain and sure as the anchor of our immortal lives. He is the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort, the very focus of our faith” Manual, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Gordon B Hinckley, Chapter 8, We Look to Christ