Margaret Cuomo Quotes

Margaret Cuomo

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : March 29, 1955

In addition to reducing cancer risk, physical exercise helps prevent heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other conditions. Physical activity is also a key factor in the prevention of overweight and obesity, both of which increase the risk of several cancers.

Margaret Cuomo

Taking the stairs instead of an elevator, walking to an appointment rather than taking a bus, subway or taxi, and spending times outdoors in warm and sunny weather are all easy ways to increase daily physical activity.

Margaret Cuomo

Cancer prevention requires awareness, determination and creativity.

Margaret Cuomo

Whether we are adults or children, members of the media or medical community, government, industry, academia or cancer advocacy group, we can all contribute to a healthier environment, a stronger, more vibrant society, and ultimately, to a world where cancer is considered a preventable illness.

Margaret Cuomo

What kind of a society will we see in 2025? I am hopeful that it will be a 'prevention-based society.'

Margaret Cuomo

Exposure to harmful, cancer-causing chemicals in our personal care products, cosmetics, cleaning agents and foods is raising our risk for cancer.

Margaret Cuomo

Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.

Margaret Cuomo

Nutritious meals, including lunch in school, and daily physical exercise, are essential for children and adolescents.

Margaret Cuomo

Growing up in a political family, I soon learned that what happens in our home, school, neighborhood and government has a profound effect on us all.

Margaret Cuomo

Teaching children to eat foods that will enhance their health, and offering them high-quality vegetables, fruits and whole grains in school lunches, have a profound effect on our children's futures.

Margaret Cuomo

Parents should be sure to have their children vaccinated.

Margaret Cuomo

Alcohol raises the risk for cancer, and so drinking wine or hard liquor should be done in moderation, if at all.

Margaret Cuomo

While we support the women who bravely face breast cancer treatments, we should also promote the prevention of breast cancer from a very early age.

Margaret Cuomo

A 'healthy diet' includes meals rich in whole grains, vegetables, nuts and fruits. Lean protein such as fish and chicken are recommended, and processed meats, such as bologna or cured ham and bacon, should be avoided.

Margaret Cuomo

Daily physical exercise for children is essential. Children can walk more, and spend time after school running, jumping rope, dancing and riding bikes.

Margaret Cuomo

Let's take a common sense approach to school lunches, and offer our children fresh, unprocessed vegetables, fruits, and whole grains and lean protein.

Margaret Cuomo

Surprisingly, the United States lacks federal legislation to protect consumers from an abundance of harmful chemicals in everyday products.

Margaret Cuomo

As adults, we realize that the real future lies in the hands of our children and grandchildren. Our first priority should be the nurturing and education of America's youth.

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We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.

Margaret Cuomo

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

Margaret Cuomo