Health Problems Quotes - Page 2

• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Suicide, Fate, Science

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• We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

  Otto Perez Molina

  Issues, Justice, Alcohol

  "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Troops, Care, Study

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  Larry Elder

  War, Home, Fire

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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.

  Mark Dayton

  Cutting, Men, Iraq

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• I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Quality, Problem, Quality Of Life

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2010.

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Couple, Stories, Saws

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, Numbers, People

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

  Helen Reddy

  Yoga, Giving, Problem

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• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  Lois Capps

  Energy, Climate, Pandemics

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• I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.

  Jack Canfield

  Spiritual, Book, Law

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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• Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Health, Bipolar, Three

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• Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Believe, Bills

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• The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.

  Hope Edelman

  Strong, Children, Sleep

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Educational, Birth Defects

  "Preventable Hunger in Our Land of Plenty" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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• The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Loss, Impact

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• I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.

  Bernie Siegel

  Home, Men, Pet

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Animal, Listening, Problem

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Mass Shootings

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  David D. Burns

  Differences, Numbers, World

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

  Michael Pollan

  Beef, Research, Growing

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

  Rick Warren

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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