The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
Interpretation
Community involvement and support can lead to better health outcomes than traditional medical facilities alone.
This quote emphasizes the significant impact that community has on individual health, suggesting that social support, relationships, and collective resources can often be more effective in promoting well-being than conventional medical institutions. It highlights the importance of community connections in fostering a healthier environment and encourages collaboration for better health results.
In practice
In a community health seminar, this quote can be used to emphasize the importance of local support systems.
It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.
Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.
I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.
You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.
If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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