Quotes About Prevention

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

Communities across the nation play an important role in leading the way toward healthier families, and the Affordable Care Act helps make prevention an important priority for every community.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

I have learnt to give my health priority and not to dismiss any health issue.

National Cancer Prevention Day, Feb. 4, is a great opportunity to focus our attention on what should be an American priority.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.

Disasters can also be averted, which is why the rigorous approach after Ronan Point was the correct response.

Many people may automatically associate breast cancer with women only, but that is a huge misconception because this disease does not discriminate.

I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

You are not just about death and disease.

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

I'd like to get away from diseases of the week.