MAN CODES: “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” - Mahatma Gandhi “New analysis shows that younger African Americans are living with or dying of many conditions typically found in white Americans at older ages. The difference shows up in African Americans in their 20s, 30s, and 40s for diseases and causes of death. When diseases start early, they can lead to death earlier.” – Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
QUOTES BY PEOPLE OF DISTINCTION Compiled by Bilal S. Akram
“There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.” — Vikram Patel “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”- Winston Churchill
“The death rate for African Americans decreased 25% from 1999 to 2015.” - CDC
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.” – George Washington Carver
“African Americans ages 18-49 are 2 times as likely to die from heart disease than whites.” — CDC
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lena Horne
“African Americans ages 35-64 years are 50% more likely to have high blood pressure than whites.” – CDC
“A brave man dies once, a coward a thousand times.” - Somali Proverb
“Your food is supposed to be your medicine and your medicine is supposed to be your food.” — African Proverb
Proverbs 4:20 – 22 20 “My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.”
“Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it.”- Heather Morgan “Don’t ask why healthy food is so expensive. Ask why junk food is so cheap.” - NutritionSnob “Those who have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find the time for illness.’’ - Edward Stanley
Lena Horne broke ground for African Americans in film.
26 AUGUST 2021 / CODE M
