Quotes about Prevention

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

I like to say, "Nothing good happens accidently." You can catch disease, but you cannot catch health.

What we worry about frequently never happens anyway, and if it is going to happen, worrying won't prevent it. Worry does not make you escape your trouble; it only makes you unfit to deal with it when it comes. God is our help in trouble (Psalm 46:1).

I cannot state strongly enough the need for regular exercise. Many people think they don't have time to exercise, but the truth is if you don't take the time now, you may lose more time visiting doctors and having to be inactive and unproductive because you feel bad. Exercise is one of the best sources of energy you can find!

Not satisfied with endlessly pulling drowning men from the torrents rushing past, Day went upstream to see who was throwing the poor bastards into the water in the first place—and