“Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.” LooksStatesProblemGovernmentAmericaYoungHouseBlackWhitePerfectPleasurePoorUnitedCommonUnited StatesIssuesSocietyCrimeHealthDrugUnderstoodResistanceUsaIllegalWhite HouseBlack PeopleBe YoungHealth Problems Author:John Ehrlichman
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” UsedCoursesReadingPowerfulSilenceMankindHealthCommunicationDrugSelf ImprovementParentingAlcoholCommunication SkillsMost PowerfulPower Of WordsPublic SpeakingFew WordsSpoken WordRight WordsPresentation SkillsEffective CommunicationPowerful WordsSpeaking In PublicUse Of LanguageUsing WordsLanguage WordsLanguages CommunicationPower Of LanguageLanguage And PowerCareless Words Author:Rudyard Kipling
“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
“Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.” ChildrenDoeDiesThreeAcceptingHealthBirthDrugDetermineSatisfiedLoudYour ChildrenSecondsChild AbuseOutragedAbused ChildrenNeglected Child Author:Brad Pitt
“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” KnowsLittlesBodyHealthDrugDiseaseDoctorsNatural Health Author:Voltaire
“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
“For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.” NaturalAchieveEffectsHealthDrugBenefitsPatientSubstanceWellnessNutrition Author:Carl Pfeiffer
“The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.” LittlesHas BeensDoneNamesGivenDangerHealthDrugMedicineDuesProportionExcessRejoiceModerationAdviseAntidoteSaturationSeville Author:Isidore of Seville
“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” PeopleWellsCareUnderstandingCuttingFoodHealthDrugEatingAskingConservativeHealth CareDietsVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsBalancedFoundersPhysiciansResearchersVegetarian HealthDrasticVegan DietCholesterolVegan HealthVegetarian DietPlant Based Diet Author:Dean Ornish
“The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.” MindHumansHas BeensStillsBodySufferingPiecesTearsIgnoranceHealthBrokenHealthyDrugDiseaseDoctorsDown AndMajorityMedicineMind And BodyBroken DownHuman Family Author:Ellen G. White
“Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.” LyingCausesHealingBehindsHealthDrugDiseaseMedicineMedical Profession Author:Silas Weir Mitchell
“All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.” HealthDependsDrugBenefitsMedicineMedicalPoisonDosage Author:Paracelsus
“What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?” IdeasFoundHealthDrugBuiltStructureMedicineMedicalEntity Author:John Henry Tilden
“The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.” ProblemHealthDrugSolutionsPrisonIncarceration Author:Barry McCaffrey
“After years of voyaging through the USA medical system and taking prescription drugs, I was sicker than when I started the process.” CareHealthDrugSickMedicalUsaNurseDoctorHospitalPrescription Author:Steven Magee
“You go in through the front door of the hospital and depending on how successful your treatment is determines whether you leave through the front door or in a box out of the back door.” CareDeathHealthDrugTreatmentNurseSurgeryDoctorHospitalCoffin Author:Steven Magee
“Modern healthcare has largely turned into a drug company scam.” CareCompanyHealthDrugCorruptionNurseDoctorHospitalProfitsPrescription Author:Steven Magee