Quotes About Prevention

You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.

Birth control is an important part of women's healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications.

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.

The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Kids get sick in preschool. A lot. Make sure that your kids are getting all the immune boosting they can to fight the germs!

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

I feel like everyone could do with starting wearing SPF at least a decade earlier than they do, just for ageing.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

I want to make people aware of early detection.

I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.