Quotes About Health

What has helped me prevent injuries is being connected and having my body aligned. Every morning, I roll out and then work on my core and my balance.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United States and abroad.

If you're at high risk or are trying to reverse heart disease or prevent the recurrence of cancer, you probably need to make bigger changes in diet and lifestyle than someone who just wants to lose a few pounds and is otherwise healthy. If you just want to lower your cholesterol, weight or blood pressure, begin by making moderate changes.

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

I see my parents getting older and I think 'How can I prevent what is going to happen to me?'

We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.

It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.

Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.

Small changes in diet don't have much effect on preventing coronary heart disease and cancer. But bigger changes in diet and lifestyle may prevent heart attacks in almost everyone.

Even for those who do survive, tumours can affect the functions of the brain and therefore affect a person's personality, preventing many people from working, driving and otherwise leading a normal life.

As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure.

I've had to learn how to listen to my body over the years and figure out how it all works together. I'm not invincible, so focusing on training my whole body and injury prevention have been extremely important.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

We want to keep creating the biggest impact we can in the cancer space by focuses on prevention, early detection, and psychosocial support.

I work a lot in the gym on injury prevention.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.