“Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.” PeopleDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseYogaImpactIllAidsRecoveryIll Health Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“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.” BelieveCountryHelpingFightingI BelievePlayerProgressDiseaseResourcesImpactI Believe InFundHivMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.” IfsFactsProblemBigsPoorLevelsDealsPovertyDiseaseImpactVariousDisappearTreatedInstanceNutritionContinentsSymptomsInfrastructureImmuneTextbooksDeficiencyBig ProblemsImmune SystemTropicalSyphilisPoor HealthAfrican Continent Author:Thabo Mbeki
“When a body is in an alkaline state, it avoids disease, but when it's in an acidic state - where you're eating a lot of processed foods, meat, dairy - you're not going to have that hydration in your body, and you're not going to have that ability to fight off disease, and it's going to impact your immune system and the inflammation in your body too.” StatesBodyFightingAbilityDiseaseEatingImpactYour BodyMeatImmuneDairyImmune SystemProcessed FoodHydrationEating A Lot Author:Vani Hari
“We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.” HeartBigsAnimalBrainDiseaseResearchImpactCancerTreatmentDisorderInfectionHeart DiseaseArthritisBig ImpactCancer TreatmentHealthier LifeAnimal ResearchImmunisation Author:Robert Winston
“A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.” IfsChildrenYoungMotherPoorFailingDiseaseImpactMortalityKillersCommodityAdequateInadequateDeliveryYoung ChildrenTokensInfectious DiseasesHealth System Author:Margaret Chan
“People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.” PeopleStillsImportantSeemsJobsEconomyFeetEffectsTerribleDiseaseMouthsAreasEnglandImpactAverageMeaningfulIncomeEmploymentAlternativesFallenFarmsHuntingBansWalesSpitefulRural AreasVandalism Author:Ann Winterton
“It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.” WorldHumansScienceBeliefViewsKnowledgeConditionsDiseaseImpactProfoundTreatmentBiologyHuman ConditionProvidingContinuum Author:Craig Venter
“I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.” FeelingsFightingSupportDiseaseResourcesImpactCancerBreastsFrightenedLoved OnesBreast Cancer Author:Ricardo Antonio Chavira
“Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.” TryingLittlesAttentionBrotherBabyTypeOne DayDiseaseMy FamilyImpactCuresDiabetesLittle BrotherMy Little BrotherType 2 DiabetesDeep Impact Author:Izabel Goulart