The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
“I may not want to appear different than every other rider on this field, but I already am.” — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering. — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
“By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of… — Sarah Hackley Copy Share Image
“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.” — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
“Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“To me she was beautiful, this artist's model, this film extra, a woman who had been married three times. I think she… — Abigail George Copy Share Image
“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options… — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed… — Sarah Todd Hammer Copy Share Image
“When a surgeon refuses to operate on you because it’s dangerous and unethical, you have no options. Just 'Here’s one more permanent… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
“We don’t always have a lot of control over our circumstances. Nobody purposely chooses financial ruin or chronic illness. But we can… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
“Job pressure: Coworker tension, bosses, work overload Money: Loss of a job, reduced retirement, medical expenses Health: Health crisis or terminal or… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
“The 40-hour work week, long considered the gold standard, has quietly and insidiously stretched into 50 to 60 hours. Despite this accepted… — Rosalind Joffe Copy Share Image
“For some reason the word “chronic” often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“That’s the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I’m in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles… — Jessica Verdi Copy Share Image
“We EDS patients are accustomed to being doctors’ first cases of something in virtually every medical specialty. We’re just as used to… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
“My alarm goes off at 5:50 a.m. First thing I do is check to make sure I'm not dead. If I am,… — Samantha Irby Copy Share Image
“In any disease, say smoking-induced lung or heart disease, organs and tissues are damaged and function in pathological ways. When the brain… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The understatement rule means that a debilitating and painful chronic illness must be described as ‘a bit of a nuisance’; a truly… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
“We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
“My name is CRPS, or so they say But I actually go by; a few different names. I was once called causalgia,… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing… — whoopi goldberg Copy Share Image
“In 1970, an experiment was conducted in a French laboratory in which two organisms from the same species that had not developed… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“His Burden Is Light Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I… — Cheri Fuller Copy Share Image
“Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.” — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never… — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“my hair is the only thing about me that's perfectly healthy. Cutting it would feel like I'm punishing my body for finally… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
“Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.” — R. M. Drake Copy Share Image
“As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities.” — Joan Friedlander Copy Share Image
Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress. — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
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