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"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."

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"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."

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"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
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"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
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"Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women."
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"Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal."
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"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities."
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"Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."
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"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries."

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"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats."

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"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."

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"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."

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"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants."

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"The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness."

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"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"

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"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."

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"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."

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"The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter."

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"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."

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