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Quotes About Disease

There are around six million people with Alzheimer's in the United States.
~ Amy Bloom
In fact, weight loss particularly of lean muscle, tends to occur in cats at about two to two-and-a-half years prior to their death from age-related diseases,
~ Amy Shojai
Therefore, Hill's Pet Nutrition therapeutic diet called Prescription Diet Feline l/d for cats with liver disease is supplemented with carnitine, taurine, and arginine. Depending on your cat's specific needs, other therapeutic diets may be appropriate as well.
~ Amy Shojai
No," answered the Lord. "The remedy would be worse than the disease. It would be the ruin of the priesthood if essence prevailed over form in the laws of salvation." "Alas! Lord," sighed the humble Probus. "Be persuaded by my humble experience; as long as you reduce your sacraments to formulas your justice will meet with terrible obstacles.
~ Anatole France
But if very drastic steps are not taken soon, then I can offer no projection other than a profound, widespread famine and disease beyond your wildest imagination, and in the end an Earth that is bleak, polluted, and exhausted and not worth living on anymore.
~ Andreas Eschbach
The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
~ Andrew Bernstein
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
~ Andrew Greeley
Isn't it strange that when we fall in love, this great dream we have, this extraordinary disease, the only thing in which eather one of us is interested, it's inevitably with some perfectly ordinary drip who for some reason we cannot define is the magic bearer, the magician, the one who brings all this to us. Why?
~ Andrew Holleran
My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
~ Anne Wojcicki
Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
~ Joel Fuhrman
We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.
~ Jamie Oliver
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
~ Mark Hyman
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
~ Leroy Hood
I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.
~ Suzanne Somers
We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.
~ Craig Venter
From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
~ Scott Gottlieb
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
~ Andrew Mwenda
The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.
~ Michael Greger
Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.
~ Michael Greger
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
~ William E. Gladstone