Asthma Quotes - Page 4

• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Home, Kids

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• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, School, Fighting

  "Barack Obama and America’s Children: Can a Tragedy Refocus a Nation’s Priorities?" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Reading, Phones, Editors

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Voice, Coal

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.

  Martin Scorsese

  Punishment, Guy, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Eye, Awards

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