Heart Disease Quotes

• Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

  Vinnie Jones

  Heart, Disease, Awareness

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• The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

  Michael Phelps

  Heart, Disease, Firsts

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• It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

  Tony Robbins

  Running, Heart, Health

  Twitter post from Apr 7, 2013

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• I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, Heart, Disease

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

  Laura Bush

  Heart, Needs, Disease

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• Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Smell, Disease

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Heart, People, World

  "Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

  David Suzuki

  Cancer, Moving, Heart

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• Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

  Walter Willett

  Heart, Years, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

  L. Frank Baum

  Kings, Heart, Eye

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.

  Andrew Weil

  Yoga, Heart, Doctors

  "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Heart, Fighting, Vegetables

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• Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

  Huntington Willard

  Cancer, Lying, Heart

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

  Jeff Merkley

  Cancer, Rain, Heart

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

  William H. Stewart

  War, Cancer, Book

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• British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight heart disease, why don't you come up with a food people will actually eat? Like a super glazed doughnut.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Fighting, People

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• I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.

  Claudia Rankine

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Heart, Men, Eggs

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• We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility.

  Walter Willett

  Heart, Risk, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Heart, Men, Oil

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.97, BenBella Books

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• If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

  Mark Bittman

  Heart, Simple, Animal

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter

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• I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Responsibility, Oil

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.

  Michael Greger

  Heart, Healthy, Age

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