Quotes About Obesity

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

I don't know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.

for all its problems in teaching other subjects, the United States is leading the pack in commercial indoctrination. The massive wave of advertising to children is considered a contributing factor in the epidemic of juvenile obesity, the growth of attention-deficit disorders, and other psychological issues, as well as the rampant sexualization of girls at ever-younger ages.

Sugar and fat a socially acceptable drugs.

Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

What shamed him was not that he was, as his doctor said, morbidly obese (what a qualifier, "morbidly," as if at a certain point, being overweight were morally similar to necrophilia). What he hated, what made him feel squirmy and ill inside, was his own inability to change his habits. He genuinely could not say the things he needed to say, could not order the salad when he smelled french fries.

The more I learn, the clearer it becomes to me that blaming fatness for sickness is a view unsupported by scientific literature.

When they added up the figures, John and other scientists found that being disconnected from the people around you had the same effect on your health as being obese—which was, until then, considered the biggest health crisis the developed world faced.

child abuse is as likely to cause drug addiction as obesity is to cause heart disease.

cruel optimism.' This is when you take a really big problem with deep causes in our culture - like obesity, or depression, or addiction - and you offer people, in upbeat language, a simplistic individual solution. It sounds optimistic, because you are telling them that the problem can be solved, and soon - but it is, in fact, cruel, because the solution you are offering is so limited, and so blind to the deeper causes, that for most people, it will fail.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise.

Holmes is depressed. Poirot is vain. Miss Marple is brusque and eccentric. They don't have to be attractive. Look at Nero Wolfe who was so fat that he couldn't even leave his New York home and had to have a custom-made chair to support his weight!

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.