advice for those who worry about being gossiped...

Be what and who you are and don't mind those gossips. As long as you know the truth and you know that what they are saying about is not true then there's no problem. Strive more to improve and leave the gossipers envious:)

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

everybody believes more in a gossip then in anything else

Gossip consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, sometimes (but not always) slanderous and/or devoted to discussing others. Compare backbiting.

While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common means of spreading and sharing facts and views, it also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information thus transmitted. The term also carries implications that the news so transmitted (usually) has a personal or trivial nature. Compare conversation.

Some people commonly understand gossip as meaning the spreading of rumor and misinformation, as (for example) through excited discussion of scandals. Some newspapers carry "gossip columns" which retail the social and personal lives of celebrities or of élite members of certain communities.

Gossip has recently come into the academy as a fruitful avenue of study, particularly in light of its relationship to both overt and implicit power structures. Compare discourse.

Researchers studying computer networks and distributed computing have recently begun to develop software based on what they term gossip protocols. These mimic social networks as a way to carry out distributed computing tasks that can be hard to solve in other ways. (The term epidemic protocol is also used in this context.)

That is definitely very good advice hon. There is also one other thing you can do to stop them....turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the gossips. Completely ignore them and treat them as if they don't exist. If you make it so that their words are not important to you, they will eventually give up and move on.