Quotes About Prevention

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Studies continue to provide evidence that more than any other food, fruit is associated with lowered mortality from all cancers combined.

And people who eat beans merely twice a week were found to have about a 50 percent reduction of colon cancer.8 Imagine the protection we would achieve if we ate beans almost every day in conjunction with other well-investigated cancer-fighting foods.

for each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.

Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?

child abuse is as likely to cause drug addiction as obesity is to cause heart disease.

It occurred to me as I walked up and down those Lisbon streets that we all—the vast majority of drug warriors, and the vast majority of legalizers—have a set of shared values. We all want to protect children from drugs. We all want to keep people from dying as a result of drug use. We all want to reduce addiction. And now the evidence strongly suggests that when we move beyond the drug war, we will be able to achieve those shared goals with much greater success.

If we can figure out at the age of five which kids are going to be addicts and which ones aren't, that tells us something fundamental about drug addiction. "Their relative maladjustment," the study found, "precedes the initiation of drug use." Indeed, "Problem drug use is a symptom, not a cause, of personal and social maladjustment.

Choosing to put a chemical into your body should not be a crime, and being addicted should not be a crime. Instead, all the money spent on arresting, trying, and punishing addicts should be transferred to educating kids and helping addicts to recover.

In the United States, 90 percent of the money spent on drug policy goes to policing and punishment, with 10 percent going to treatment and prevention. In Portugal, the ratio13 is the exact opposite.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

You're trying to prevent something that's already happened, said Kaspian-Lee calmly.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

A smidgen of prevention can prevent some real headaches!

The best way to protect me from your hate, is not to create it.

Thou wert wise to chisel for me: «Taken from the evil to come».

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Precaution is better than cure.

Precaution is better than a cure.

Friends don't let friends drive drunk.