Fereydoon Batmanghelidj quotes

“Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.”
-- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

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“The whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.”
-- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

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“Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!”
-- Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#Healing Quotes #Sick Quotes #Water Quotes

“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”

“Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.”

“It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.”

“I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.”

“Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”

“As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

“The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.”

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”

“It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd