Disease Quotes - Page 14

• Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

  Paracelsus

  Nature, Health, Mean

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Ordinary, Connections

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Children, Two, America

  "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  George Carlin

  Memories, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

  John Donne

  Funny, Humorous, Health

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The works of John Donne: Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631”, p.518

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• Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

  Matthew Prior

  Night, Medicine, Yesterday

  'The Remedy Worse than the Disease'

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• First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

  Edward Jenner

  Fitness, Health, Men

  An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

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• The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

  William James Mayo

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Silly, Artist, People

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• We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

  Ann Veneman

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Without money honor is merely a disease.

  Jean Racine

  Honor

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• With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Moving, Passion

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

  Rudolf Leuckart

  Truth, Prevention, Cures

  Rudolf Leuckart (1886). “The Parasites of Man, and the Diseases which Proceed from Them: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”

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• Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

  B. J. Palmer

  Men, Medicine, Causes

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• You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Law, Choices, Causes

  "The Cure for the American Diet: Nutrient Density" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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• DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Past, Environmental Factors, Two

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• Shiitake and reishi offer a diverse range of potential health benefits. You can take all of these supplements in perhaps eight to ten pills or capsules daily. If you take just three or four of these natural supplements at breakfast and the same number later in the day, you will have substantially increased your energy levels, boosted your immune system, lowered your risk of heart disease and cancer, and strengthened and balanced your overall system.

  Mark Plotkin

  Cancer, Heart, Medicine

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• 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

  Lying, Years, Roots

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• Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

  Howard Rheingold

  Support, Empathy, Community

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• Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Healing, Men

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• Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Healing, Movement, Body

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• ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

  Rene Dubos

  Dark, Age, May

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• Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Fear, Mind, Body

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 493:17 (1875)

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• The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Form, Manifold

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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