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"[T]he very business model of the fast-food industry promotes gorging." -THE 2007 REPORT, Altering Portion Sizes and Eating Rate to Attenuate Gorging during a Fast Food Meal: Effects on Energy Intake
"It is very important to differentiate semantic from biologic similarities." -DR. CHRISTINE BERNAL, pediatric rheumatologist, on why children with rheumatic diseases should not be treated like adult patients
"Half of all suicides are linked to alcohol, and one-third of all suicides have been [committed by] alcohol-dependent persons." -JOUKO LOENNQVIST, head of the mental-health department, National Public Health Institute, Finland, on the decline of suicides in Finland
"[Acupuncture] has no side effect, as long as you really use proper technique, proper aseptic method, and you [are] well trained." -DR. TERESITA CHU-UY, acupuncturist, Manila Doctors Hospital Pain Management and Wellness Center, on the use of acupuncture in low-back pain
"Kung oras mo na, oras mo na talaga. God's been very good to me. Naging maganda naman ang buhay ko with my career, family, and friends." -RUDY FERNANDEZ, actor, on living with periampullary cancer
"I feel like I'm in prison." -A 25-YEAR-OLD SOUTH AFRICAN PATIENT with extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis, on being dissuaded from leaving the hospital for public-health reasons
"I think he had a one-to-one talk with God during his time in the ICU, wherein he said na kung gusto na siyang kunin, kunin na siya. Wag na lang pahirapan." -LORNA TOLENTINO, actress, on Rudy Fernandez's battle with cancer
"Di ko na lang iniisip na may sakit ako dahil lalo ko lang nararamdaman." -RHENIEL WAGAN, a young patient living with deep-vein thrombosis |
