Quotes About Obesity

for the vast majority of people, being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but by what they eat. The idea that people get heavy because they consume a high volume of food is a myth. Eating large amounts of the right food is your key to success and is what makes this plan workable for the rest of your life.

Liquid calories, without the fiber present in the whole food, have little effect in blunting our caloric drive. Studies show that fruit juice and other sweet beverages lead to obesity in children as well.36

Fat deposits around your waist are a greater health risk than extra fat in other places, such as the hips and thighs.

By my calculations, it is not merely 70 percent of Americans who are overweight, it is more like 85 percent.

irrefutable evidence that Americans were committing suicide with food.

Incredible as it seems, high-calorie, trans-fat-filled french fries are the most common vegetable eaten by young children today.

Incredibly, by 2010 these processed foods had become 62 percent of the calories in the standard American diet.

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The combination of fat and refined carbohydrates has an extremely powerful effect on driving the signals that promote fat accumulation on the body. Refined foods cause a swift and excessive rise in blood sugar, which in turn triggers insulin surges to drive the sugar out of the blood and into our cells. Unfortunately, insulin also promotes the storage of fat on the body and encourages your fat cells to swell.

In the United States, for example, less than 5 percent of total calories consumed come from fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts.

Most of the time, the reason people are overweight is too little physical activity, in conjunction with a high-calorie, low-nutrient diet.

Most overweight individuals are addicted to food. This means almost all Americans are food addicts.

The number one health problem in the United States is obesity, and if the current trend continues, by the year 2048 all adults in the United States will be overweight or obese.1

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the famous and the dead.

America is one of the few places in the world where a "poor" person can still be obese.6

Subject: Should We Free Feed Our Dogs? Dear Name, At Crest Hill Boarding we're often asked whether it's okay to free feed our dogs. It's certainly the easiest way to make sure a dog always has food and never goes hungry. But there are some problems with free feeding. Dogs that are free fed often gain excess fat later in life and health problems can occur without our noticing.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

The French also have far lower rates of obesity than Americans do, despite the fact that their diet is higher in fat.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.