Health Misconception Quotes

When they first told me, 'Oh yeah, you developed asthma,' I was like, 'What? There's no way. How do you develop asthma? You're supposed to be born with that.'

If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?

I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.

I thought I was healthy... well, my eggs were a little powdered.

You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't.

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.

You don't have to be rich to be healthy. That's such a misconception.

I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.

There are so many health food nuts out there that eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible.