Tom Parker Bowles Quotes

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!

Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

Every time I've gone to Brazil I've gotten sick upon return. You know, it's just a different situation there. And I take every precaution - eating cooked foods and staying away from tap water, brushing my teeth with bottled water - and yet I still manage to get sick. So I'm just going to stay on point, bring my probiotics.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.

Remaining here might not be good for your health.