Hippocrates
Physician
"All disease starts in the gut."
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Disease
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Hippocrates
Physician
"Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure"
Hippocrates
Physician
"We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure."
Jamie Oliver
Chef, Author, Television Personality
"Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it."
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"The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others."
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"Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases"
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"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."
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"Misery is a communicable disease."
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"Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far."
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"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."
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"It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine."
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"When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth."
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"Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road."
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"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer."
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"All disease begins in the gut."
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"Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses."
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"Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease."
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"All diseases begin in the gut."
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"If I ever get Manziel disease, I want all of you to smack me in the head with your microphones."
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"Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself."
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"Seriousness is a disease of the ego"
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"As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases."
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"People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age..."
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"Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails"
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