Quotes About Prevention

Pills and Skills Model, Instead of asking your doctor what can I take, ask your doctor what can I do.

The wars we haven't had saved many lives.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.

The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small.

Ideology is the arrogance of the finite subject who speaks as if he were the ultimate legislator, as if she had been appointed the final judge. The best prevention against the inveiglement of ideology is the practice of reading, in which the calculable well-formedness of various logics is constantly being fractured by a pervasive textuality.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

New science reveals that exercise positively influences the gut's balance of bacteria to favor colonies that prevent weight gain.

To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty,

To think that we are spending up to $215 billion a year on dementia care in this country—far more than we're spending on any other disease—is infuriating when we consider that the vast majority of these dementia cases could have been prevented with simple lifestyle modifications early in the life cycle.

often a fully preventable problem. If you're a chronic headache sufferer, why not try a gluten-free diet? What have you got to lose?

Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty, or forging weapons after the war has already begun. —NEI JING, 2ND CENTURY BC

Within the next decade, one in two Americans will suffer from diabesity—the term now used to describe a range of metabolic imbalances from mild insulin resistance to pre-diabetes to full-blown diabetes. The hardest fact of all to accept is that a breathtaking 90 percent of these people will not be diagnosed. They will carry on and come to learn of their predicament when it's far too late.

Mantener el orden en lugar de corregir el desorden es el principio máximo de la sabiduría. Curar la enfermedad después de que ha aparecido es como cavar un pozo cuando uno tiene sed, o forjar armas después de que la guerra ha comenzado. NEI JING, siglo II d. C.

walnut oil, were 60 percent less likely to develop dementia than those who did not regularly consume such oils. The

When asked to comment on the results, UCLA researcher Beatrice Golomb said, "Regarding statins as preventive medicines, there are a number of individual cases in case reports and case series where cognition is clearly and reproducibly adversely affected by statins."30 Golomb further added that various studies have demonstrated that statins either negatively affected cognition or were neutral, and that no trial has ever shown a positive outcome.

babies who are regularly breast-fed when they are first introduced to foods containing gluten have been shown to cut their risk of developing celiac disease by 52 percent, compared with those who are not being breast-fed.

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You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that we are getting fatter and fatter every year despite all the information sold to us about how to stay slim and trim. You'd also be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't know about our soaring rates of type 2 diabetes. Or the fact that heart disease is our number one killer, trailed closely by cancer.

Brain disease can be largely prevented through the choices you make in life.

Ordnung zu halten, statt Unordnung aufzuräumen, ist das Grundprinzip der Weisheit. Eine Krankheit zu heilen, nachdem sie aufgetreten ist, ist wie einen Brunnen zu graben, wenn man Durst hat, oder Waffen zu schmieden, wenn der Krieg bereits ausgebrochen ist. – Nei Jing, 2. Jh. v. Chr.

What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor.

The much darker story remains to be told, probably not about this virus but about another. When the Next Big One comes, we can guess, it will likely conform to the same perverse pattern, high infectivity preceding notable symptoms. That will help it to move through cities and airports like an angel of death.

Any tiny little thing that people do," Dwyer said, if it makes them different from one another, from the idealized standard of herd behavior, "is going to reduce infection rates.