Quotes About Prevention

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

The results were so clear that one would expect the British Navy to adopt citrus juice for scurvy prevention on all its ships. But it was not until 1747, about 150 years later, that James Lind, a British Navy physician who knew of Lancaster's results, carried out another experiment on the HMS Salisbury.

Family planning experts, in calculating the effects of contraceptive campaigns, estimate the number of births averted by calculating the pregnancies that would have occurred if contraceptives had not been adopted; the concept of births averted is not very meaningful to a peasant family in a Third World country that is being urged to adopt a preventive innovation like family planning.

30% of fatal road accidents are due to alcohol; therefore 70% are due to people who don't drink!...

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.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

Most firearm-related deaths in America are suicides.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

It ought to be said, the aim of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is not justice that has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

LIGHTNING CAN DEVASTATE a human being. Except for floods, it kills more people in the United States annually than any other weather event.

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Black children drown at a rate five times that of white children. And as with so many other things, money also has a heavy hand in the way swimmers are made: in the United States, nearly 80 percent of children in families with a household income of less than fifty thousand dollars have no or low swimming ability.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

that, "as unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely." After those incidents, employees had to write a

The best leaders in any enterprise see problems coming and stack the deck to prevent negative "what ifs" from happening. They also have contingency plans to take advantage of positive openings which occur in fleeting windows of time.

A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks. Three

If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.

Dig your well before you're thirsty

One treatment shown to prevent cavities in young teeth: a fluoride varnish that the dentist can easily paint on once a year. Toothbrushing