Epidemics Quotes - Page 6

• For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Obesity Epidemic, Goal

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• The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Cancer, Heart, Type 2 Diabetes

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• Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.

  Mel Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Ebola

  "'Fear-bola' hits epidemic proportions" by Mel Robbins, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2014.

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• The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Law, Messengers, Critical

  "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fashion, Teenage, Book

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• Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

  Abiola Abrams

  Self, Trying, Culture

  Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.131, El Dorado Publishing

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Luck

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• Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Medicine, Bypass, Economics

  "Why the New Surgical Cure for Diabetes Will Fail!" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Insanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Best Kept Secrets, Drug, Medical Profession

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Numbers, Disease

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

  Richard Codey

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

  Tate Taylor

  Married, Homosexual, South

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, Teenage, White

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• Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.

  Dennis Altman

  Wrath, Political, Majority

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• Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

  David L. Katz

  Years, United States, World

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• If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Issues, Care, Disease

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• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Thinking, Disease

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• Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

  George M. Church

  Intelligent, Thinking, Neanderthals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Organization, Office

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

  Shereen El Feki

  People, Risk, Hiv

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• Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

  Akong Rinpoche

  War, Disease, Poverty

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• When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  New York, Dollars, Way

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• But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Determination, Attitude, School

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• I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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