George Herbert Quotes

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

America doesn't have health insurance.

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

What gets measured, gets done.

As a society, we're not squeamish about suggesting norms for what individuals should weigh, how much money they must earn in order not be judged impoverished, and how much cholesterol is okay in their blood.... In education, we have lots of tests, but we don't really have any norms.

Whenever you can, count.

All should take care of the sick

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

We only value something when we measure it.

VD: Worst of the Three.

This is a "test."

Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.