David L. Katz Quotes

United States, Physician
February 20, 1963

David L. Katz is an American physician and the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center that was founded at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut in 1998. He is known for his dietary recommendations.

Also known as Director

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

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- People
- War
- Humanity
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

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- Control
- Risk
- Exotic

Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.

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Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

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- World
- Crisis
- Motion
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!

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- Book
- Rewards
- Sensible
Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

David L. Katz