Quotes About Obesity

And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day.

Overweight children are a demographic in many ways similar to minors addicted to cigarettes, with one notable exception: their parents are usually their suppliers

Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who've ever lived, dining just a few pathogens away from famine.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

Chris Rock observed, "This is the first society in history where the poor people are fat.

Though obesity surely is a public health problem, by the standards of history it's a good problem to have.

Not only does eating too much sugar lead to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay, it is also one of the biggest contributors to low energy and feelings of being overwhelmed—it has even been scientifically linked to depression.

Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn't the end of the world as is reported everywhere.

This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.

For a typical North American, their fat tissue is their biggest organ," says James Kirkland

The weight loss came about because a buddy of mine who was diagnosed with diabetes because of his obesity told me that I was fat. And I started laughing, and he was like, 'No seriously, you're fat.' And I said, 'Oh wow, really.'

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

We need the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing.

We need to have the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing. Insolent children and submissive parents are not the characters we want to admire and emulate. Flippancy and sarcasm are not the qualities which we need to include in our daily conversations.

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

We still don't know what evolutionary significance to attach to it, but it is at the very least interesting that a telomere gene is related to obesity.

corn sweetener is to the republic of fat what corn whiskey was to the alcoholic republic.

We used to be the drunkest nation in the world; now we are the fattest nation in the world.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth...

Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat; the same number today suffer from being overweight…..For the first time in 100 years medical experts are predicting that life expectancy in developed countries will fall. Thanks to obesity our children face the prospect of dying younger than us.

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.