Hippocrates Food Quotes
Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. – Hippocrates
All disease begins in the gut. – Hippocrates
Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health. – Hippocrates
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. – Hippocrates
Walking is man’s best medicine. – Hippocrates
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. – Hippocrates
Let food be your first medicine, not supplements. – Hippocrates
It is better to eat less and live longer than to eat more and die sooner. – Hippocrates
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. – Hippocrates
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. – Hippocrates
The body is the house of disease. – Hippocrates
A healthy outside starts from the inside. – Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. – Hippocrates
All diseases run into one – old age. – Hippocrates
When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need. – Hippocrates
Art is long, life is short. – Hippocrates
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. – Hippocrates
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors 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
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. – Hippocrates
The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. – Hippocrates
Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates
As the mind, so the man; bondage or liberation are in your mind, not in your circumstances. – Hippocrates
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure are most suitable. – Hippocrates
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. – Hippocrates
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. – Hippocrates
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. – Hippocrates
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. – Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. – Hippocrates
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. – Hippocrates
Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient. – Hippocrates
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. – Hippocrates
Life is short, and art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. – Hippocrates
Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts. – Hippocrates
What medicine can heal, medicine can also harm. – Hippocrates
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. – Hippocrates
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. – Hippocrates
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it. – Hippocrates
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness. – Hippocrates
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. – Hippocrates
What drugs cannot heal, the knife can; what the knife cannot heal, fire can. – Hippocrates
To do nothing is also a good remedy. – Hippocrates
The best physician is also a philosopher. – Hippocrates
The body is healthy in proportion to the number of conflicts it successfully manages. – Hippocrates
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. – Hippocrates
People who are sick often want to be pampered and taken care of, but the best thing you can do for your health is to take responsibility for it yourself. – Hippocrates
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. – Hippocrates
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. – Hippocrates
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it. – Hippocrates