“Real profit [in medicine] is made not by controlling chronic diseases...but by treating their many complications.” – The New York Times, 2006

“The system encourages people to get sick and then people get paid to treat them.” – Dr. Matthew Fink, Beth Israel Hospital, The New York Times, 2006

"The major causes of diseases in our country -- cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes -- are not genetic factors, as so many people believe and use as an excuse, but diets and lifestyle factors. We have documented that unhealthy diet and lifestyle account for more than 80 percent of heart disease, 90 percent of type II diabetes, and more than 70 percent of stroke and colon cancer." - Harvard School of Public Health

“The agency [the FDA] neglects safety in its rush to speed the drug-approval process because current laws and policies let the drug industry influence the FDA.” - Paul Stolley, MD, MPH, former senior consultant to the FDA