"Filipinos are carnivorous."
- MS. FIDES SALVE PALENCIA, dietitian, The Medical City, on Filipinos' preference for meat
"The number-one culprit in the generation of cancer is microwave. Microwave causes cancer, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease.
Maraming kasalanan yan."
- DR. RICARDO FERNANDO, chair, University of
the East Institute for Diabetes Studies Foundation
"[Using sauces and condiments] is a health no-no that's common but usually taken for granted, so I usually make it a point to tell my clients to avoid sauces in their food."
-MITCH FELIPE, weight-management consultant, Fitness First
"Basically you can look at our hospitals and our health-care-service delivery system as a waiting room for airlines before the departure."
- PROFESSOR EMMANUEL LEYCO,
director of health-care management, Asian Institute
of Management, speaking at the Philippine College of Physicians annual
convention
"If I see a cardiologist indulging too much and smoking-I really frown on cardiologists who smoke-he is doing a disservice to his patients by being a bad example."
- DR. ANTONIO SIBULO, cardiologist and director of the St. Luke's Heart Institute
"We need to have a pharmaceutical industry that can manufacture the drugs that we need…. Parallel importation may be part of the solution of the problem but I see it as a short-stop-lock measure only."
- DR. ENCARNITA BLANCO-LIMPIN, vice president, Pharmacovigilance
Society of
the Philippines, speaking at the Philippine College of Physicians annual
convention
"[Water] hydrates the body and washes the digestive system. It's a healthy habit to do so one hour before breakfast, and preferably before every meal."
- DR. ROMULO DE VILLA, molecular and nutritional oncologist and chair, department
of biochemistry and nutrition, Far Eastern University-Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
"What is very clear is that unless we are able to find out or determine the risk factors responsible for outbreaks, these will occur again and again and again."
- DR. ENRIQUE TAYAG,
infectious-disease specialist and chief
of the Department of Health's National Epidemiology Center
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