Quotes About Disease

We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

I'm now convinced that all arthritis, most coronary artery disease, acne, eczema, and the autoimmune diseases are all caused or worsened by lectins.

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

A lot of people are still suffering from water-borne diseases... We want to create something where we can make life better for everyone.

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.