Kidneys Quotes - Page 4

• High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves.

  John A. McDougall

  Cancer, Heart, Loss

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• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  Virginia Postrel

  Blue, Wife, Comedian

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• Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

  Wanda Sykes

  Failing

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• One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, Heart, Autism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When my son got sick and he was in the hospital, and they took out his kidney when he was less than a year old, I definitely learned that each moment is really precious and I don't want to take anything for granted.

  John Feldmann

  Son, Years, Sick

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

  Jonah Lomu

  Years, Choices, World

  "First & last: Jonah Lomu". Interview with Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

  Sheri Fink

  Healthy, Needs, Might

  "Kidney Patients Face Dialysis Rationing" by Sheri Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.

  Bryan Talbot

  Strong, Boys, Mushrooms

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• Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

  Michio Kaku

  Blood Vessels, Cells, Skins

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• In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

  Paul Bloom

  Giving, Charity, Enough

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

  Sally Satel

  Motivation, Giving, Sole

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

  Sally Satel

  Years, Ideas, Numbers

  "Political Trends In Medicine: How Does Election Season Affect Our Health?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

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• The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?

  Lynn Margulis

  Cells, Blood, Ideas

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• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Years, Three

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• Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Example, Matching, Patient

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

  Robert Montgomery

  Rejection, Able, Middle

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• Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Brain, Purpose

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man Who Japed”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidney. I'm so tired. But when you're having dinner with your kids and your husband and someone says something funny or you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiess.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Husband, Real

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• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! But it's also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you're friends with.

  Sarah Hyland

  Giving Up, Dad, Don't Give Up

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The brain secretes thought as the stomach secretes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the kidneys urine.

  Karl Vogt

  Brain, Juice, Stomach

  Kohlerglaube and Wissenschaft

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• The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

  Andrew Weil

  Blood, Ideas, Balance

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• I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles.

  David Wolfe

  Cancer, Heart, Wrinkles

  David Wolfe (2013). “Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Eye, Disease

  "Author Tom Rath On The Health Wake-Up Call He Got At 16 Years Old". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2013.

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