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“Nutritious meals, including lunch in school, and daily physical exercise, are essential for children and adolescents.”
“One good rule of thumb is to focus on those foods sold along the perimeter of a supermarket. Vegetables, fruits, fish, poultry, dairy products, and bread are generally positioned along the outer borders of grocery stores.”
“Being an educated consumer is the best way to shop for nutritious, disease-preventing foods.”
“E-cigarettes will raise your risk for lung cancer but also other cancers, like liver cancer.”
“Let's take a common sense approach to school lunches, and offer our children fresh, unprocessed vegetables, fruits, and whole grains and lean protein.”
“Cancer prevention requires awareness, determination and creativity.”
“Imagine the progress that could be made by gathering together the world's scientists, engineers, physicians, oncologists, epidemiologists and more in a super-team effort to end cancer.”
“We owe it to ourselves, to our families, and to the future of America to improve the quality of our daily diets, and keep America healthy and lean.”
“Taking the stairs instead of an elevator, walking to an appointment rather than taking a bus, subway or taxi, and spending times outdoors in warm and sunny weather are all easy ways to increase daily physical activity.”
“While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing processed foods that are high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and calories.”
“When we speak of maintaining clean water supplies and a sustainable use of the environment, we should also stress the elimination of harmful chemicals in consumer products.”
“I love my country, but it's a very hard life, the life of a politician.”
“Whether we are Democrats or Republicans, all Americans can agree that our health care costs are unsustainable - and the sooner we acknowledge that, the better.”
“An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman's life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman's life.”
“The Italian Language Foundation will continue to support the growth of AP Italian through its grants to AP students, and its professional development opportunities for teachers of Italian.”
“Would we like to see our children lead long and healthy lives? If so, we should support the maintenance of the child nutrition bill, and strive to give our children the most nutritious food that America has to offer.”
“While we support the women who bravely face breast cancer treatments, we should also promote the prevention of breast cancer from a very early age.”
“Surprisingly, the United States lacks federal legislation to protect consumers from an abundance of harmful chemicals in everyday products.”
“Teaching young people about healthy lifestyles should include a conversation about cancer risk factors.”
“The AP Italian language program has been preserved. We would like to thank the scores of people who joined the effort to ensure that generations of students will have the opportunity to learn not only a beautiful language but the history and contributions of one of the great cultures of Western civilization.”