Top 238 Illnesses Quotes & Sayings

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated. But this says nothing about their causation.

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

We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government playing too much of a role in our lives? When people have that response, they're forgetting the extent to which what kids are eating and drinking is having as much of an impact on their lives as, say, if they were starting to smoke cigarettes as teenagers. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses.

Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.

Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.

Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same stress-related illnesses, such as ulcers and heart disease.

In an era of unprecedented medical innovation, we have to do more to ensure that patients facing terminal illnesses have access to potentially life-saving treatments.

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

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

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

I'm a family doctor, and a big part of what I do is preventative care, and breast cancer is one of the illnesses that women suffer from greatly in this country.

For cancer patients like me, and for others who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses, natural disasters don't put health on the back burner.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature.

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'