Quotes About Prevention

If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.

Bullying has changed a lot through the years.

Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't.

I'm against cigarettes, always.

I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.

All states have to be on board with the common objective of checking supply of various types of drugs.

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

The development of a strategic plan for cancer prevention in medical schools that is supported by all stakeholders - including the medical community, government, the insurance industry, cancer advocacy groups and all those dedicated to cancer prevention - will be the key to inspiring patients to live lifestyles that will decrease cancer risk.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

You're never going to be bulletproof, but if you're feeding yourself good food and making sure you're eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.

Supporting people to stay in their homes is surely a better method of reducing homelessness than acting after the fact.

Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.

My father is a big guy; he's had a quadruple bypass surgery, and that's scary. Those are real things that happen in families with overweight people, and I don't want that.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

There's no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.

sexual assault. If that term confuses you take out the word "sexual" and just focus on "assault," on violence

In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, "Studies of the Surgeon General's office reveal that domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four, more common than automobile accidents, muggings, and cancer deaths combined.

The military and National Guard were deployed to prevent things that often existed largely in their imagination.

Colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.

Here in the United States, where there is a reported rape every 6.2 minutes, and one in five women will be raped in her lifetime

Which means that there may be very nearly a rape a minute in the United States.

tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...