Chronic Illness Quotes

• The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Achievement, Challenges

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

  Karen Duffy

  Journey, Healthy, Odyssey

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". Live chat, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Powerful, Health, Medicine

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, Our Society, Slim

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• A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

  Rachele Brooke Smith

  Issues, People, Obesity

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Cancer, Mutation, Pushing

  Dharma Singh Khalsa (2003). “Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Thinking, People, Maintenance

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• The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.6, Missionday, LLC

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• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Disease, Today, Illness

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

  Kris Carr

  Stress, Causes, Illness

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