Quotes About Disease

The events in this story take place during the devastating Ukrainian famine of 1921–23, when more than a million people died of starvation and disease.

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

A vast amount of contemporary clinical care is incidental to the curing of disease, but the damage done by medicine to the health of individuals and populations is very significant.

I know there must be any number of people in the world today much sicker than I ever was. I would appeal to such people to face their trials with a firm, undespairing heart and to never surrender in their battle with disease. And this applies not only to disease: No matter what kind of difficult situations one finds oneself in, some opportunity, some opening, can always be found to fight one's way out. The important thing is always to have hope and to face the future bravely.

Summer makes me suicidal. It sucks all the magick out of life, and even sleeping becomes an exercise in fruitless brutality. I cannot comprehend what it is in the souls who await this misery. Nothing worthwhile can survive the heat. The birds and the bees are harbingers of hell, ushering in a season of disease. There is nothing in these months that speaks to me. It conspires to keep me from ever reaching home.

Religion damned our species for thousands of years, from the lowest superstition to the highest conclaves of spiritual faith. It drove us to madness, to war, to murder, it hung upon us like a disease, like a shackle ball. I'll tell you what religion was… No, you tell me. You, there?' 'Ignorance, sir.

Sallie said, "One: name the disease. Tell the truth about the prognosis. Two: reassure the children that they didn't cause it. Three: tell them everything the doctors are doing to help. Four: don't hide anything." After growing up on the wisdom "Don't tell

The world avoided" is an evocative phrase. In some ways it's the goal of every upstream effort: To avoid a world where certain kinds of harm, injustice, disease, or hardship persist. The path to "the world avoided" is a difficult one because of the barriers we've seen: problem blindness (I don't see the problem), lack of ownership (That problem is not mine to fix), and tunneling (I can't deal with that right now).

Cats can become ill if they hunt and kill mice.

Immunizations have arguably saved more lives than any scientific advance in human history.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

by constantly bombarding ourselves with things that aren't food, we're creating a low level of chronic inflammation throughout our bodies. Inflammation plays a major role in weight gain, and puts us at greater risk for heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and just about every other disease worth freaking out about. Inflammation is the key to everything. Inflammation is your body's response to foods and additives it deems unhealthy.

a 2011 study found that gluten causes gastrointestinal symptoms in people even if they don't have celiac disease.

a 2016 study linked another protein in wheat, amylase-trypsin inhibitors (ATIs), to inflammation in the lymph nodes, kidneys, spleen, and brain, and suggested that it could be linked to arthritis, asthma, and fatty liver disease, among other things.

This includes drugs, alcohol, environmental toxins, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea, depression, negative thinking patterns, excessive stress, and a lack of exercise or new learning. 3. Consistently do good behaviors that help your brain. Adopt a great diet, learn new things, exercise, develop accurate thinking habits, work on stress management, and take some simple supplements to nourish your brain.

Having greater self-esteem Looking better in jeans or a bathing suit Being able to participate in sports and other activities I used to enjoy Having a better relationship with my spouse Reversing diabetes, heart disease, or other health risks Decreasing my risk for Alzheimer's disease and other diseases of aging Having the confidence to apply for the job I really want

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

If you lived in 18th-century England, you probably lived in a village, worked on the land, and your greatest fears were probably dying in a famine or of disease or in a war.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.