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the only fortune you don't notice owning until the moment you spend it
means the overall condition of a body or mind, especially the state of being free from illness, injury, or distress
from From Old English hǣlth, built on hāl meaning 'whole, sound, uninjured' — the same root that gives us 'whole,' 'hale,' and the greeting 'hail.' To be healthy was literally to be intact, all in one piece; the suffix -th turns that wholeness into a noun, the way 'warm' becomes 'warmth.' The idea sits quietly in 'heal' too — to heal is to make whole again.
- gut residents
- Your microbes outnumber your human cells slightly
- loneliness toll
- Isolation rivals smoking fifteen cigarettes daily
- WHO definition
- Not merely absence of disease, but complete wellbeing
- sleep purge
- The brain washes itself clean during deep sleep
- laughter dose
- It measurably lowers stress hormones and blood pressure
world health organization — un agency founded 1948, 194 member states
medicare — us federal health insurance program since 1965, covers 65+ million people
national health service — uk's public healthcare system established 1948, serves 67 million people