Quotes About Disease

In other words, we're living longer, but we're living sicker.

The pandemic of chronic disease has been ascribed in part to the near-universal shift toward a diet dominated by animal-sourced and processed foods—in other words, more meat, dairy, eggs, oils, soda, sugar, and refined grains. 37

People who once ate vegetarian diets but then started to eat meat at least once a week experienced a 146 percent increase in odds of heart disease, a 152 percent increase in stroke, a 166 percent increase in diabetes, and a 231 percent increase in odds for weight gain.

When it comes to the next pandemic, the question is never if, but when—and how bad?

Every year, Americans lose more than five million years of life from cancers that may have been prevented.1 Only a small percentage of all human cancers are attributable to purely genetic factors. The rest involve external factors, particularly our diet.2

as effectively as first-line statin drugs, but without the risks.39 In fact, the "side effects" of healthy eating tend to be good—less cancer and diabetes risk and protection of the liver and brain, as we'll explore throughout the rest of this book.

of liver disease in countries where pork is more popular? It appears so. The relationship between national per capita pork consumption and deaths from liver disease correlates as tightly as per capita alcohol consumption and liver fatalities. Each pork chop consumed per capita

What's more, not only may eating healthier to prevent cancer help to prevent heart disease but eating to prevent heart disease may also help to prevent cancer. One of the reasons? Cholesterol may play a role in the development and progression of breast cancer.75 Cancer appears to feed on cholesterol.

That one unifying diet found to best prevent and treat many of these chronic diseases is a whole-food, plant-based diet, defined as an eating pattern that encourages the consumption of unrefined plant foods and discourages meats, dairy products, eggs, and processed foods.

It is [Simon] Wessely's often-unconcealed "derision" directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners' death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical scientists in other countries whose decision-makers have come under Wessely's thrall.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Part of the disease's 'gift' is a certain stark clarity about the rest of your life.

Incurable disease is a nonpartisan problem that will require a bipartisan solution. The desire to alleviate suffering and save lives speaks not to our allegiance to any party or ideology but to our humanity.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Parkinson's is as much about cognitive problems as it is about physical ones. The motor effects usually become evident before the mental effects, which is part of why movement issues get more attention.

Is it any wonder that no cure for cancer has ever been revealed?

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

There is no comfort in being a statistical exception. It's like having a rare disease or being the victim of outrageous misfortune - you keep asking yourself, Why me? Why not someone else?

Today, they would have put me on Ritalin or put me in a nuthouse. They'd call my lack of attention a disease. It wasn't. It was called boredom!

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

He had seen terrible faces in the hospital—faces on which disease had set dreadful marks—but he had never seen a face that impressed him so painfully as this withered countenance, with its indescribable horror of death outlived, a face that should have been hidden under a coffin-lid years and years ago.

Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions.