Quotes About Prevention

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if the doctor is cute, forget the fruit

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Populations that do not typically consume dairy products appear to exhibit lower rates of bone fracture despite consuming far less calcium than recommended.

That was the tragedy. Radium had been known to be harmful since 1901. Every death since was unnecessary.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

struck fear into medieval hearts—hot baths, which had a dangerously moistening and relaxing effect on the body. Once heat and water created openings through the skin, the plague could easily invade the entire body. For the next two hundred years, whenever the plague threatened, the cry went out: "Bathhouses and bathing, I beg you to shun them or you will die.

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

Dietary patterns are set at a very early age—somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.

You want less crime? Make it so there are less criminals.

When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries." -Mr. Kipling

Firearms are the leading source of death among black children under the age of nineteen and the second leading cause of death for all children of the same age group, after car accidents.

and the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination

the drugstores were besieged by people asking for vaccination

Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.

randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.

Why does America have thousands of suicide prevention centers and not one homicide prevention center?

In America, a woman is killed by a spouse every two hours.

In (sad) fact, if a full jumbo jet crashed into a mountain killing everyone on board, and if that happened every month, month in and month out, the number of people killed still wouldn't equal the number of women murdered by their husbands and boyfriends each year.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Creo que no seremos capaces de prevenir este tipo de incidentes hasta que hagamos un esfuerzo mucho mayor para asegurarnos de que todos los estudiantes se sienten incluidos en su comunidad escolar.

the earlier it starts, the more difficult it is to treat and the greater the damage is likely to be.

But eavesdropping acquired a new, and more intense, life after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. "Never again" was an impossible mandate, of course, but the only way to have any hope of preventing something from happening is to know everything that is happening. That led the NSA to put the entire planet under surveillance.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.