Quotes About Obesity

I got to 16st when it became painful for me to walk.

It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.

Forget the running and the jogging. Being so paranoid about being obese is the thing that kills you.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

Reducing excess body fat is best accomplished by avoiding junk food and eating healthy foods.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

All the studies point in the same direction: on average, children who sleep less are fatter than children who sleep more. This isn't just here, in America—scholars all around the world are considering it, because children everywhere are both getting fatter and getting less sleep.

I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about current events and success stories from the Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation to help fight diabetes and child obesity.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

We can save more lives with plant-based diet if people would only realize they are enslaved to fats, oil, sugar and things that are killing their body.

My new favorite quote is, Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.