Roger Moore Quotes

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

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

We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.

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

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

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.

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

You can't take good health for granted.

We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

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

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.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay well. This requires a shift in the way both doctors and patients approach health maintenance and disease prevention.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Health is really important to me and my family. It's something that we value and that I strive for on a daily basis. MedImmune, the makers of Flumist Quadrivalent, knew about that and knew how important health is for me, so it was a no brainer for me to collaborate with them.

I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I'm healthy so I can push myself.