“A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.” HeartRiskDiseaseLifestyleFactorsControlledHeart DiseaseCarbohydrates Author:Robert Atkins
“When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.” IfsShouldHeartImportantKnowingRiskHeardBloodExerciseHealthyDiseaseEatingLosingDoctorsWeightPressureCancerLifestyleFactorsOur FamilySmokingDiabetesOverweightHeart DiseaseHealthy FoodBlood PressureCholesterolEating HealthyLifestyle ChangeHigh Blood PressureEating Healthy FoodHigh Cholesterol Author:Laura Bush
“I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.” ThinkingWayFirstsTwoWholeCan DoAttentionTechnologyFocusPromiseCostDiseaseManagementMedicineLifestyleExpensiveDependentTreatmentHealthcareMainstreamPromotionShiftingTwo WaysPreventionHealth Promotion Author:Andrew Weil
“I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.” PeopleIfsHeartHas BeensDifferentSimpleStepsSawsDiseaseLifestyleDietsRight ThingFrustratedTrajectoryHeart Disease Author:Mehmet Oz
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.” GivingYearsCareAmericaSimpleConditionsHealthDependsCitizensHealthyDrugDiseaseToolsTreatsManagementLifestyleHealth CareTherapyDietsUsaExpensiveTreatmentManifestHealthcareHealthy LivingPhysiciansSurgeryHealthy LifestyleTherapeuticHealth Care SystemAlternative MedicineManagement Systems Author:Andrew Weil
“Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.” ThinkingHeartDeathChangeHealthDrugDiseaseAccountsIllnessLifestyleCombinationHealthcareSurgeryMaking ChangesComprehensiveHealthy LifestyleDiabetesPreventionHeart DiseaseLifestyle Change Author:Dean Ornish
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” HumansMotivationalHealthDrugDiseaseDoctorsTreatsMedicineIllnessMedicalLifestyleCuresWellnessFitnessNutritionHealthy LivingHealth And WellnessHealth And FitnessPhysical HealthHealthy EatingPhysical FitnessEating HealthyHealth FitnessInspirational HealthHealth And NutritionHealth NutritionHuman HealthLiving HealthyWellness And FitnessHealthy NutritionFood MedicineHealth And Life Author:Thomas A. Edison
“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.” MayHealthHealthyDiseaseMedicineLifestyleCuresFitnessPhysiciansPreventingPreventionHealth And FitnessHealth FitnessFitness WorkoutWellness And Fitness Author:Thomas Fuller
“Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.” WellsLittlesRiskActivityDiseaseLowsCancerAlcoholLifestyleFactorsSmokingCigaretteConsumptionQuit SmokingPhysical ActivityCalciumOsteoporosisCommunicable Diseases Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland
“Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns.” PeopleCountryPoorCompanyReturnDrugDiseaseHighestResearchInvestmentMarketingLifestyleAdvertisingSavingDevelopingYieldSurprisingPoor PeopleDeveloping CountriesLife SavingAdvertising And MarketingDrug Companies Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.” ShouldHumansMayWarHuman BeingsBreakPlanetsDiseaseEnvironmentalClimate ChangeLifestyleGlobal WarmingFeverExtremistBreak Out Author:Thomas Lovejoy