Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.
We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.
In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?
[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?
AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
my sister. . . was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.
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.
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.