Quotes About Prevention

The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help because you can quickly get better. If you get stuck in it, it's so hard to get out.

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

I take magnesium to prevent cramps. A few years back, I suffered from hamstring tears, and part of that can be to do with muscle cramping, and then pushing the muscle at that point. I also take a fish oil supplement.

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.

I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.

I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

This philosophy means that when you've entered a den of assholes, you do everything possible to get out as fast as you can—or, better yet, to figure out how to avoid that lair in the first place. I call this the "da Vinci rule." As Leonardo da Vinci put it, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.

It is far cheaper to build schoolhouses than prisons, and it is much better to have scholars than convicts.

we don't want to forecast but to warn. We don't ever want to forecast a disaster; we want to take actions that will prevent the disaster from happening.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Those who don't make time for daily exercise must eventually make time for daily illness, you know

Those who don't make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.