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Yun'er's 70 Health Preservation Aphorisms

1. Thousands of ways to stay healthy, but a balanced mindset is the key.

2. Anger harms the liver, joy injures the heart, sorrow and fear damage the root of life.

3. To live well, don't be petty; control your anger and you'll live a long life.

4. A broad mind can hold a ship, health and longevity last over a hundred years.

5. For health and happiness, press a cold sponge onto foundation-covered skin, and learn to find joy yourself.

6. A virtuous wife means fewer illnesses for her husband; a good wife is better than good medicine.

7. Calamities come from the mouth, diseases arise from the heart.

8. Good people are healthy, evil people have short lives.

9. A carefree disposition hides diseases.

10. A spacious house and land are not as important as a wide heart.

11. If a person has a childlike heart, they remain young forever.

12. Laugh once, and you're ten years younger.

13. Laugh three times a day, and aging becomes difficult.

14. Always smile, and youth remains.

15. Cry once, and a thousand worries disappear.

16. Let tears flow freely, and when the skin fits well, diseases naturally heal.

17. Men should cry their hearts out; heroes bleed and also weep.

18. Sleep with peace in your heart first, then close your eyes.

19. Medicine and food supplements cannot match mental nourishment.

20. Food nurtures the body, songs nurture the heart.

21. Eat well in the morning, eat full at noon, and eat smartly at night.

22. Overeating leads to illness; eating on time and in moderation brings stability.

23. Eating hastily and swallowing quickly harms the stomach and intestines.

24. Chew your food until it turns to paste for a strong body.

25. To avoid all diseases, always leave a bit of hunger.

26. It's better to store food in the pot than to let your belly swell.

27. Leave one bite per meal, and you'll live to ninety-nine.

28. Eating vegetables regularly is good for digestion.

29. Prefer beans over meat.

30. Eating rice with bran provides both nutrition and health.

31. Three days without greens makes your eyes see stars.

32. Prefer meals without meat, but never without soup.

33. Soup before meals beats any prescription.

34. Eat noodles with more soup, and you won't need prescriptions.

35. Morning salt water is like ginseng soup, but evening salt water is like arsenic.

36. Summer green bean soup detoxifies and cools like an elixir.

37. Morning ginger slices are like drinking ginseng soup.

38. Women should eat lotus roots every three days, men should eat ginger.

39. When radishes hit the market, doctors go out of business.

40. People say bitter melon is bitter, I say it’s sweet.

41. Eating October eggplants starves doctors.

42. Carrots are "poor man's ginseng"; eat them often to build strength.

43. Tomatoes provide great nutrition, beauty, youth, and less disease.

44. Cucumbers are treasures for weight loss and beauty.

45. Eating celery reduces blood pressure effectively.

46. Scallions dipped in sauce make you gain weight.

47. Garlic is a treasure; eating it keeps you healthy.

48. Two apples a day keep spring ailments away.

49. Three jujubes a day keep old age at bay.

50. Walnuts are treasures from the mountains, nourishing the kidneys and brain.

51. Iron doesn’t become steel without forging, and humans aren’t healthy without exercise.

52. Exercise while you’re young, don’t wait until you’re old and regretful.

53. Treating someone to a meal is not as good as treating them to sweat.

54. Without sunlight, doctors will come knocking.

55. Idle knives rust, idle people get sick.

56. Laziness ages you, diligence prolongs your life.

57. The best doctor is yourself, and the best exercise is walking.

58. Walk a hundred steps after meals, and live to ninety-nine.

59. Stand tall as a pine, walk brisk as the wind.

60. To keep your legs young, kick shuttlecocks often.

61. To keep your legs active, walk backward.

62. Don’t run into the wind when sweating, and don’t hunch your chest while running.

63. Don’t touch cold water until your sweat dries.

64. Bathe frequently for good health.

65. Jump rope to keep your brain sharp.

66. Being mentally and manually agile stimulates brain activity.

67. Practice often to be smart; idleness leads to dullness.

68. Dance regularly, and dementia won’t come.

69. Dance to folk music for good health.

70. Practicing Tai Chi extends life and promotes longevity.