Quotes About Prevention

It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. " - Anon

One of the ways to avoid trouble was to see it before it got to you.

If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.

Some people think the plant-based, whole-foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme." —DR. CALDWELL ESSELSTYN N

You know, it scares me. I mean, allergies are one thing. But all these surplus antibiotics are raising people's tolerances, and it won't be long before the stuff just doesn't work anymore. There's all sorts of virulent bacteria that are already resistant.... It's like back to the future—we're headed backward in time, toward a pre-antibiotic age.

Information about toxicity in food is widely available, but people don't want to hear it.

Your health was what you had until the day you didn't have it and after that day you were screwed and it was better not to let doctors screw you before that day came.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom

Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

It is our access to the truth that can enable us to prevent such people, who yearn for the order' spawned by violence, from realizing their destructive plans. Fascism will have had its day once society ceases to deny the knowledge we already possess about the production of brutality, violence, and dehumanization in childhood and minimize its dangers. Once this has happened, it won't have a chance in this society.

By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that by sharing such things I might be able to avoid them or, if need be, recognize them when they occurred. By talking about them to her children, she was also acknowledging that they were real and that they had an effect on us too, that things like this shaped a family, not just the person they happened to.

This is a warning from your body: "POISON! DON'T TOUCH!

we neglect what are the best forms of prevention—i.e., promoting exercise, proper diet, moderation in alcohol use, abstention from tobacco and drugs. These extremely useful and remarkably cheap prevention measures aren't profitable for the medical-industrial complex and therefore lack its powerful and well-financed sponsorship.

No matter how much I pushed, she refused to have the genetic screening that could save her life. I

If you wait till they seem bad, you've waited way too long.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

He smiled. "It's worth every cent, lamb," he said. "The whole purpose of a kit is to stop trouble before it starts. If you can supply the answer to every question anybody might conceivably ask, they wont go prying around on their own." He chuckled. "Besides, I write it off as an operating expense.

Las lesiones cerebrales pueden arruinarnos la vida. El alcohol no es sano, lo demuestran las lesiones graves que se aprecian en las imágenes de SPECT. Algunos medicamentos que solemos tomar, como los ansiolíticos comunes, no son buenos para el cerebro. Enfermedades como el Alzheimer empiezan en el cerebro décadas antes de manifestarse los síntomas.

No amount of fitness is worth an injury.

Get control of your health now before it gets control of you.