Top 100 Quotes About Heart Disease
#1. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#2. One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#3. The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.
Oscar Arias
#5. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Ike Skelton
#6. I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#7. If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
Laila Ali
#8. As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#9. It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.
Michael Greger
#11. Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#12. I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.
Dick Cheney
#13. Some older or very ill patients may not be suitable candidates for fecal transfer. Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure, especially for those patients who are too ill with other conditions like cancer, heart failure, dialysis, or Alzheimer's.
J. Thomas LaMont
#14. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#15. The Japanese are a disease of the skin ... the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political ... Two reds sandwiching a black ...
Jung Chang
#16. The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
Monica Potter
#17. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
Brian Tracy
#18. British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight heart disease, why don't you come up with a food people will actually eat? Like a super glazed doughnut.
Jay Leno
#19. A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.
T. Colin Campbell
#20. The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
Sean Booth
#21. Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.
Sharon Weil
#22. Even if we take Nietzsche figuratively (which he would have much preferred anyway), fifty years of research on stress shows that stressors are generally bad for people,3 contributing to depression, anxiety disorders, and heart disease.
Jonathan Haidt
#23. The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
David Suzuki
#25. We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better.
Charles C. Harpe
#26. Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.
Nathan Filer
#27. Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn't do.
Michele G. Miller
#28. Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.
John Salley
#29. EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
Ambrose Bierce
#30. She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#31. I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
Magdi Yacoub
#32. When I was a child, doctors sent my grandmother home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she already had so much scar tissue from bypass operations that the surgeons had essentially run out of plumbing. There was nothing more to do, they said; her life was over at 65.
Michael Greger
#33. Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an "anacetrapib" deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#34. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#35. Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
Michael S. Horton
#36. study after study also directly links the intake of excess sugar to an increased risk for cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, eye diseases, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and other inflammatory diseases.
Colette Heimowitz
#37. In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
Frances Beinecke
#38. Vegetarians and vegans tend to weigh less and have lower blood pressure, lower blood cholesterol, and, in turn, a lowered risk of heart disease than people whose diets include some or all types of animal products;
Thich Nhat Hanh
#39. Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come there be more than 50% death from heart and cancer disease alone in a developed nation such as USA?
Subodh Gupta
#40. Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
Mario Batali
#41. [T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.
Gary Taubes
#42. Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
Vinnie Jones
#43. Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.
Mallory Ortberg
#44. Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
Cheryl Hines
#45. Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
Ann Romney
#46. We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
Laura Bush
#47. Studies have actually shown that there is a very close positive relationship between insulin resistance and hypertension. Actually, diabetics who suffer from hypertension have double the risk of suffering from cardiovascular heart disease.
Janie Sanders
#48. If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?
Timothy Murphy
#49. In a teal polo shirt could perish of anything other than heart disease at age eighty-six, possibly at a polo match.
Maggie Stiefvater
#50. The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.
Magdi Yacoub
#51. The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
Tom Rath
#52. Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
Harvey MacKay
#53. Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
Corbin Bernsen
#54. Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.
Mark Sisson
#55. The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.
Michael Phelps
#56. Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.
Mallory Ortberg
#57. A significant number of research studies have documented that heart disease is easily and almost completely preventable through a diet rich in plant produce and lower in processed foods and animal products.
Joel Fuhrman
#58. Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.
Liz Miller
#59. Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.
Michael Greger
#60. When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
Paul Shepard
#61. Christ ... didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.
Billy Graham
#62. As it did every time she saw Frank, Hazel's heart performed a little skip-beat tap-dance - which really irritated her. Sure, he was a good friend - one of the only people at camp who didn't treat her as if she had a contagious disease. But she didn't like him in that way.
Rick Riordan
#63. Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.
Joel Fuhrman
#64. The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
Joel Fuhrman
#65. I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease ... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
Julianne Malveaux
#66. I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
Robert Jarvik
#67. So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal?
Pamela Dean
#68. I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.
Andrew Weil
#69. I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again.
Dick Cheney
#70. The mind only knows what lies near the heart, that alone is
conscious of our affections. No disease is worse to a sensible man
than not to be content with himself.
Saemundr Frodi
#71. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.
T. Colin Campbell
#72. How do women still go out guys, when you consider that there is no greater threat to women than men? We're the number one threat to women! Globally, and historically one cause of injury and mayhem to women. You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.
Louis C.K.
#73. The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them sick.
Les Brown
#74. True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.
Andrew Weil
#75. Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.
Michael Greger
#76. It's hard sometimes to see through the fog, the pain, hurt, fear and everything else we live with every day. Virginia Woolf couldn't do it. Annette Klinger couldn't, either. My heart breaks for them - that they couldn't get the help they needed for a disease they couldn't control.
Nyrae Dawn
#77. The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
Cheryl Hines
#78. I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
John Mackey
#79. I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
Mehmet Oz
#80. The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [ ... ] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.
Walter Willett
#81. If the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart - which it is - you'll never cure the disease you're suffering from by doing X-rays on other people.
Matt Chandler
#82. Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.
Madame Roland
#83. With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.
Walter Willett
#84. ... Well, some day i'm going to get in with that wild artistic group. It's the only thing that makes this town different."
"The 'wild artistic group,' as you put it, has an average age of fifty-seven, and most of us have heart disease and bladder trouble...
Richard Bradford
#85. Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#86. So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk. If you sit on the sofa for your entire life, you're running a higher risk of getting heart disease and cancer.
Alex Honnold
#87. Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.
Matt Cartwright
#88. My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.
Nick Cassavetes
#89. Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
Sam Kean
#90. Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.
Richard E. Besser
#91. The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
Michael Shaara
#92. We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.
Robert Winston
#93. Bitterness can compromise a heart the way fireblight disease can consume an apple orchard.
Nicole Deese
#94. Laughter IS the BEST medicine! It's FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces stress, heals your body and relieves pain! It fights disease and cancer and strengthens the immune system! It eases your mind, it protects your heart and soothes your soul!
Tanya Masse
#95. I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
Laila Ali
#96. Does lowering the plasma cholesterol level through dietary modification prevent or delay heart disease in man? This question would never be answered, but it no longer seemed to matter.
Gary Taubes
#97. If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress.
Dr. Esselstyn
#98. People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you!
Stella Payton
#99. I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
Robert Jarvik
#100. We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
Kay Redfield Jamison
