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Quotes About Obesity

I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.
~ Paul Wall
We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.
~ Mary Pilon
Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
~ David H. Murdock
Of course, figuring out what actually works in reducing childhood obesity is not really the point of these programs. (If it were, then the government might finally stop categorizing french fries as "vegetables.") The real point is the same thing it always is: conformity, control, and eventually fundamental transformation.
~ Glenn Beck
Although there is much malnutrition in the world, more die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
~ Author Unknown
Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.
~ Author Unknown
REFERENCE RANGES FOR GAMMA-GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE (GGT) Category GGT Normal Range (IU/L) GGT Target Range (IU/L) Men 0 to 65 32.5 Women 0 to 45 22.5 The GGT levels of healthy African Americans are typically twice as high as those of Caucasians. Additionally, GGT may be 25 to 50 percent higher in obese individuals, and 10 percent higher in one-pack-a-day smokers.
~ James B. LaValle
Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
~ Laurie David
Square meals often make round people.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.
~ Margaret Cuomo
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
~ Colin Baker
What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or obesity, which gave him a chance where previously there would have been none. Maybe children democratized beautiful single women.
~ Nick Hornby
Sugar is a silent killer
~ Nicole Richie
He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book.
~ Lauren Mechling
He [Mr. Snagsby] is a mild, bald, timid man with a shining head and a scrubby clump of black hair sticking out at the back. He tends to meekness and obesity.
~ Charles Dickens
As we confront the child obesity crisis, advergames that promote unhealthy foods to kids are a real cause for concern.
~ Luciana Berger
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.
~ Isabel Allende
It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.
~ Greg Giraldo
might have not only more energy, but also lower odds of developing obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, brain disease, and prostate, breast, and colon cancers. Their genes are going to "look" younger; even their poop and the bacteria in their poop are more aligned with good health.
~ Thomas M. Campbell II
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
~ Thomas Szasz
extreme loneliness is twice as likely to cause death among the elderly as obesity or high blood pressure. Those who had reported being lonely had a 14 percent greater risk of dying.
~ Thupten Jinpa
Nutrition isn't the only problem; our children also aren't getting enough exercise.
~ Matt Cartwright