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Quotes About Disease

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.
~ B. J. Palmer
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
~ Kofi Annan
How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!
~ B. J. Palmer
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
~ Linus Pauling
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
~ Voltaire
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
~ Ovid
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
~ Joycelyn Elders
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.
~ Brian Carter
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
~ William Harvey
But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
~ Petrarch
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
~ Rene Dubos
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
~ Andrew Taylor Still
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
~ Ashley Montagu
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
~ Maimonides
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
~ George Denison Prentice
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.
~ Silas Weir Mitchell
In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
~ Bernard Jensen
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
~ Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito
It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.
~ Robert Anthony
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
~ Gautama Buddha
We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
~ M. Scott Peck