Quotes About Disease

It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.

Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

I have a deadly disease called Sickle Cell Anemia that I was born with that affects millions of others - primarily in the Black and Latino cultures. I feel I can inspire others with this Sickle Cell disease to be strong and believe in themselves.

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Cancer does not discriminate.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

I have aging as a disease.

I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.