Mary Lasker Quotes

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

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.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

It costs money to stay healthy, but it’s even more expensive to get sick.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.

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

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime.

The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I've become a representative of the American Diabetes Association, and then I just became national spokesman for the American Heart Association for a campaign called The Heart of Diabetes, which brings the awareness of cardio-vascular disease to diabetics.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.