“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.” WayShouldMadeShowsFacesWifeWillingInternetDiseaseNotesNotionBusyCancerFishesCurrentsDinnerMy WifeOilThanksSubstanceReliefSuspectsLaughedPlatesDrsPillsBlogsHomeworkShowing UpContainingWikipediaMalignancyDinner Plates Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.” SexNumbersTelevisionCivilizationDiseasePerfectionAddictionAlcoholPsychologicalSubstanceRelatedMelodramaNicotine Author:Deepak Chopra
“In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.” WayNeedsGivingDoeGrowsCausesGrowthDiseasePlantSubstanceSoilOrganismsIndispensableMicrobesInfectious Diseases Author:Elie Metchnikoff
“Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.” HardFacesWorkFailingDrugDiseaseConsequenceTestsOvercomingAbusePreparedSubstanceGoing AwaySubstance Abuse Author:Lindsay Lohan
“For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.” BodyBrainBloodDiseaseAll TimeSubstanceQuantityAfter Death Book:Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System Source: Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System
“In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical. The etheric, composed of finer, more attenuated substances than the physical, is corresponding amenable to vibratory influences. It is upon the former that harmony and rhythm have the most potent effect. Good music readjusts its molecular structure in accordance with the original divine plan, the archetype, and refines and accentuates it's vibratory currents. All forms of beauty and harmony increase this regenerating process.” MenBodyInspirationFormForceProcessPlansInfluenceEffectsDivineDiseaseIncreaseHarmonyOriginalsStructureCurrentsRhythmFormerSubstanceContemplationVehicleCorrespondingArchetypeAccentuateAmenable Author:Corinne Heline