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Health Quotes
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
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"Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries where they live longer than us...they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom!"
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"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation."
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"We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!"
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"There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands."
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"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."
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"A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access."
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"Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies."
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"A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences."
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"Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems."
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"The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina."
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"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."
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"The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care."
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"This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer."
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"We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others."
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"Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much."
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"Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring."
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"Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications."
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"As I've mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate some of these, but really not by very much. Everyone knows, or at least has the information, about the horrors of ignoring health issues and expecting your body to do what you want it to do with the least investment in it. Another "authority telling you what you should do is not the answer."
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"Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population)."
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"Family, nature and health all go together."
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"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."
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"Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America."
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"As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually."
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"The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates."
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"The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours, it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to."
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"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
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"Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive."
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"You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest."
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"Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders."
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"I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives."
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"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
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"In all planing you make a list and you set priorities."
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"I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today."
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"I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious."
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"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination."
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