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Health Quotes
"What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I."
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"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
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"When you don't fit in anymore, eat less."
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"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
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"I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."
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"The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need."
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
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"I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off."
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"Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds per person."
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"I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products."
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"You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories)."
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"Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?"
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"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."
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"Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence."
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"Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents."
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"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities."
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"What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?"
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"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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"I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better."
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"Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us."
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"How do you feel? she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. "Other than terrible, I mean.He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug."Of course you're feeling terrible, she clarified, "but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?He made no response."The same amount of terrible?"
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"Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?"
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"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies."
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"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
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"We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care."
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"It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home."
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"After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time."
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"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
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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 dependences-by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving."
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"Avoid working in windowless environments for good health."
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"There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well."
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"Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women."
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"It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars."
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"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
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"Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs."
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