Quotes About Health

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

I always start my breakfast out with oatmeal, because it's full of vitamin D, it's a great carb, and you can get, like, some fun flavors in there.

When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.

I eat oatmeal a lot, before I work out or after.

I've long admired Michelle Obama's devotion to encouraging fitness for children.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

Resveratrol had a decent benefit when the mice were obese and sedentary. The mice that were fed a lean diet and resveratrol lived significantly longer than other treated mice as well as those that had no healthy diet and no resveratrol. So resveratrol is not an excuse to be lazy or eat whatever you want.

I have never really been obese.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

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.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

Obesity in children is growing out of control. A big part of this is economic. Fake foods are more affordable. It's enticing people to eat more because they think they're saving money when they're really just buying heart disease.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.