HEALTH AND
MONEY
The Truth about
the Relationship Between Health and
Wealth
When money
is lost, a little is lost.
When time is lost, much more is lost.
When health is lost, practically everything is
lost.
And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing
left.
— from
101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But
Keep
Forgetting
Money, generally speaking, can’t buy what
your heart truly desires nor can it buy what you can’t
see.
Yet what your heart truly desires and many
things you can’t see are fundamental to being happy. In this
group you can list peace of mind, love, job satisfaction,
and spiritual fulfillment. Many rich people don’t have these
elements of happiness and, regardless of their financial
prominence, they can’t buy these things.
Even health can’t be bought. No doubt
financial might can provide better quality healthcare,
particularly in the United States, where public healthcare is
not universal as it is in Canada.
He who
enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
— Italian proverb
Even so there are those who dispute that
money alone can buy better healthcare and
a longer life. Not so long ago The World Health
Organization, (WHO) released figures on health and life
expectancy. The United States was shown to be the biggest
spender at around $3,700 per person per year.
These numbers would indicate that the
US is doing well as compared to the rest of the
world. No so. the US came in a disappointing
24th compared with the rest of the world.
Don't
take good health for granted.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In comparison, the Middle Eastern country of
Oman spends only $330 per person on health, but ranks a high
eighth on the list. Christopher Murray, director of WHOs Global
Program on Evidence for Health Policy sums it up by saying "It
is not more money for health, it is more health for the
money."
Incidentally Japan had the longest life
expectancy at 74.5 years. Overall, Japan, Australia,
France, Sweden, Spain and Italy enjoy the longest, healthiest
lives.
In short, once you destroy great health, you
can’t buy it back. Right living including having enjoyable work
— and not the almighty dollar — is key to great
health.
Quotes
about Health and
Wealth
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
— John Webster
A lot of people lose
their health trying to become wealthy, and then lose
their wealth trying to get back their health..
— Unknown Wise Person
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself,
art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth
becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be
applied.
— Herophilus
It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and
sick.
— Dave Barry
I wish for you a life of wealth, health and
happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the
gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of
knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own
ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
— Jim Rohn
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors,
little health.
— Hebrew proverb
Money,
achievement, fame, and success are important, but they
are bought too dearly when acquired at the cost of
health.
— Author Unknown
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the
truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
— Richard Baker
Those who ignore
health in the pursuit of wealth ususally wind up losing
both.
— Author Unknown
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a
diamond-studded wheelchair.
— Dorothy Parker
Prescription for
Life-Long Happiness
Purpose enough for
satisfaction;
Work enough for sustenance;
Sanity enough to know when to play and rest;
Money enough for basic needs;
Affection enough to like many and love a few;
Self-respect enough to love yourself;
Charity enough to give to others in need;
Courage enough to face difficulties;
Creativity enough to solve problems;
Humor enough to laugh at will;
Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow;
Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have;
Health enough to enjoy
life for all its worth.
— from the
book How
to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
Money is to my social existence what health is to my
body.
— Mason Cooley
Money isn't everything, your health is the other ten
per cent.
— Lillian Day
Money is the most
envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most
enjoyed, but the least envied.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Early to bed and early
to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
— Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early
to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
— from the book How
to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free
I don't want to be the richest man in the
graveyard.
— Song by Ben Kerr (Toronto busker, who did have a
real job for over two decades)
Too many desires harm
the mind; to desire much money harms the body.
— Chinese proverb
Health Resources
- U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services: "Improving
the health, well-being, and safety of
America."
-
- Health
Canada : Health
Canada is the Canadian Federal
Government's department responsible for helping
Canadians maintain and improve their health, while
respecting individual choices and circumstances.
- Health.com:
Health.com is produced by editors and journalists
dedicated to delivering accurate, trusted, up-to-date
health and medical information, for consumers.
The website focuses on problem-solving content
to help you make decisions during complicated, stressful
times.
- National
Health Information Center: The
Health Information Resource Database includes 1,400
organizations and government offices that provide health
information upon request. Entries include contact
information, short abstracts, and information about
publications and services the organizations
provide.
-
Retirement Health:
Retirement Advice Relating to health in
retirement including why health in retirement
is the best retirement gift that you can give
yourself and how to cycle your way to better
retirement health.
- National Institutes
of Health: NIH is the
nation’s medical research agency — making important
medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The National Institutes of Health, a part of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary
Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical
research.
- Yahoo
Health: Everyday Wellness Topics
include Alternative Medicine, Back Pain, Cold & Flu,
Managing Health Care, and Sleep Problems.
- AARP
Health: AARP Health features
retirement information about healthy retirement living,
health insurance, medicare and medicaid, doctors and
hospitals.
- Healthoopedia: This
website is a medical and health consumer
information resource containing comprehensive and
unbiased information in patient-friendly language
from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70
focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs
and medications.
General
Quotes about Health
Self-abuse is the most certain road to the
grave.
— Dr. George M. Calhoun in 1855
Keep away from
physicians. It is all probing and guessing and
pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure
in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as
very fat fees.
— Anthony Burgess
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being, and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity.
— Constitution. The World
Health
Organization
People who don't know
how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the
decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time
about it.
— Henrik Ibsen
The two best things I ever did for my health was
quit smoking and get fired from my last real job, never
to return to another.
— from
Career Success WITHOUT a Real
Job
Quit worrying about
your health. It'll go away.
— Robert Orben
Health nuts are going
to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing.
— Redd Foxx
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be
cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect
to be well.
— James Freeman Clarke
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