"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
― Gro Harlem Brundtland
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― Gro Harlem Brundtland
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- "Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."
- "During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
- "Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases."
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- "But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation’s economic viability."― Jim Clyburn
- "In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner."― Olympia Snowe