After all, athletes are subject to the same diseases we are subject to".
"The rich kids are taken care of by poor maids, so they catch the same diseases.
"Fructose can fry your liver and cause all the same diseases as alcohol," Dr Lustig continues.
They often got the same diseases that their sons and daughters-in-law got, but 30 years later.
Because pigs can catch many of the same diseases as people, including bird flu, the W.H.O. and F.A.O.
For example, though identical twins have identical DNA, they do not always get the same diseases.
Dairy cattle are susceptible to the same diseases as beef cattle.
Many people are working to assure that Ms. Queller and her sister never have to face the same diseases their mother did.
In this week's issue and here online (see Fact), in "The Bell Curve," Atul Gawande writes about the startling differences in how well different hospitals treat the same diseases, and about the debate over whether the public should know.
Although in the broader health picture they are a nuisance, not a threat, their fleas carry the same diseases as they always have, and rat bites are as dangerous as ever.
Obesity, especially abdominal obesity, is associated with some of the same diseases as smoking, including heart disease and illnesses that are specifically linked to excess weight, like Type 2 diabetes, which was long known as adult-onset diabetes.
