I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, 'Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.
Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.
While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
Health food makes me sick.