Disease Quotes - Page 28

• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Sadness, Heart

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. And diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Issues, Government

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Civilization, Numbers

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• If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.

  Joe Biden

  Cancer, Vaccines, Cells

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Cells, Talking

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• Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

  William McNamara

  Cancer, Heart, Way

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.

  William McNamara

  Country, Heart, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Athlete, Osteoporosis

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• There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one.

  Donna Karan

  Jobs, Husband, Caring

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• I've battled psoriasis; I've had an autoimmune disease since I was two. So I'm very vigilant about taking care of myself and eating right and what I put in my body. It's something that I had to be aware of since a young age. So health is a big deal.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Two, Age, Body

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• The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Children, Heart, Mean

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• Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

  Judith Hill

  Cancer, Passion, Fighting

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.judithhill.com.

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• According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Decay, Causes

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• Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doctors, Nurse, Addiction

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Dust, People

  Interview with Allen Ginsberg, sensitiveskinmagazine.com. March 1992.

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• The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

  Colleen Saidman

  Doctors, Nurse, Broken

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Overcoming, Able, Consciousness

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• After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Air, Steps, Breathe

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• We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.

  Melinda Gates

  Jobs, Numbers, United States

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

  Melinda Gates

  Vaccines, Always Trying, Differences

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Unless you have a specific injury or a disease, I think a lot of people don't quite understand. I think a lot of people put arthritis in the same category. There's a real difference from someone whose joints swell, that's probably rheumatoid arthritis, than what I have.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Real, Thinking, Differences

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• I became a lot more educated on this arthritis thing when I was diagnosed with it, but basically OA is a degenerative disease, which is definitely something that you're not going to be able to stop because it's going to be ongoing, but there are certain things you can do to slow down the progression.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Able, Ongoing, Progression

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• I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.

  Alicia Keys

  Determination, Children, Fighting

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With ORIGIN Magazine (PHOTOS)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1, 2013.

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• There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

  Newt Gingrich

  Cancer, Heart, Issues

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Cancer, Heart, Fighting

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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