David Agus Quotes

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

I've said in the past that if I were Prime Minister, I would ban obesity.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.

I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

It's cool to be healthy.

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.

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.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.