Quotes About Prevention

You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.

One big part of Movember is raising awareness for men's health. A lot of people gotten involved found out members of their extended families had had prostate cancer.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

Every year, my mom makes sure I have my checkups and everything, which is probably a really good idea. She's great with all that health stuff.

Kyle Korver - got to treat him like J.J. Redick and not let him get good looks.

Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP) encourages participants to expose themselves to their obsessions (or to situations that will bring on the obsessions), while they prevent themselves from using compulsions to get rid of the resulting anxiety.

Bio-Oil is the best scar and stretchmark prevention/remedy. I swear by the entire range of Vea Oleo - their lip balm is great. I use the one in tubes for my son Otto's winter skin dryness.

Why do our kids need to be protected from flu? Isn't that something only for the cold western countries who have long, cold, below-zero winters? That's what I thought until I learnt that India's tropical weather facilitates circulation of viruses around the year, unlike the West, which sees a peak only during winter.

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

It seems that, every several months, you have to expect there is going to be a terrorist incident or that there could be a terrorist incident somewhere. Right away, you're thinking, 'What are the consequences? Is this the first part of a larger attack? Is it coordinated, or a lone wolf?'

Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.

I believe that babies should be vaccinated pretty much as soon as they exit the womb.

The Iowa Women's Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the first place.