Quotes About Disease

I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of infectious disease threatening global health security.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

My stepfather, Steve Mallonee, is a retired Miami Beach firefighter, loved and adored by many. After numerous years of heroic work, saving lives through fire and heavy smoke, he has developed a very fatal lunge disease called Pulmonary Fibrosis.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

The Alzheimer's Association in the United States, founded by Jerome Stone, they found me because they had heard rumours that my mom was diagnosed. Jerry said, 'We're a small family group, and we would like to know if you'd like to join us and to spread the word about this disease.' I said, 'Absolutely.'

The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

More people living in less space can put greater strain on already limited sanitation resources, and this can create a fertile breeding ground for waterborne infectious disease and the insects spreading them.

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

Over a period of years, you move from pre-diabetes, to diabetes taking a single medication, then two then three and then finally large doses of insulin. Here's the thing. If you are taking more and more medications to keep your blood sugars at the same level, your diabetes is getting worse!

We pretended that using medications to lower blood sugar makes people healthier. But it's only been a lie. All because we've overlooked a singular truth. You can't use drugs to cure a dietary disease.

Diabetes is a global health epidemic. In a 2014 study, one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from Imperial College London reported that 422 million people worldwide were living with diabetes.1 That's four times as many as in 1980, when 108 million people were living with the disease. That bears reiteration – the number of diabetics has quadrupled across the globe in just over 35 years.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 86 million people were at risk in the United States in 2014.2 That's an astounding one in three people.

In order to set remission as a goal for our diabetic patients, we need to partner with them in the treatment process. Practitioner and patient should each clearly understand their roles. Effective treatment to the point of remission of any carbohydrate-induced CNCDs including T2DM requires a bimodal approach. Treat the cause and treat the disease.

The absence of cancer in mummies from Egypt and South America86 led one study to propose: 'In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.

It is now clear that the dangerous atherogenic dyslipidaemia that produces arterial disease is caused by a high-carbohydrate diet that produces NAFLD. Heart attack is therefore a disease of carbohydrate, not fat, metabolism.

As a society, we are spending billions of dollars on medications that ineffectively clear sugar from the bloodstream when the simplest, most effective way to prevent the disease or put it into remission is by preventing sugar from ever getting into the bloodstream by not putting it into our faces in the first place!