People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

The remark reflects Dick Gregory’s long-running advocacy of diet- and lifestyle-based approaches to health, a theme he emphasized in speeches and interviews after he became a prominent health and nutrition activist. By naming hypertension and diabetes, he points to chronic diseases often associated with diet, stress, inactivity, and other environmental factors, arguing they are not simply inevitable or purely genetic. The second sentence—“If you change the life style, those conditions will leave”—pushes a strong, motivational claim: that personal and collective behavioral change can reverse illness. Read critically, it also simplifies complex conditions that may be manageable rather than fully reversible for every patient, but its rhetorical purpose is to stress agency and prevention.