Obesity Quotes - page 3

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children. (Richard Lamm)
I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it. View quote
Jo Brand
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. [...] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. View quote
Naomi Wolf
There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world. View quote
John Salley
We have reached the conclusion that what we eat is responsible for a large number of tumors, and that certain foods trigger cancer while others have a protective value. Meat and its derivatives figure among carcinogenic foods of the intestines. Meat, in fact, is particularly rich in saturated fatty acids, substances that lead to damaging activity in regard to our bodies in general. Furthermore, certain forms of tumors, such as intestinal cancer, are directly correlated to the consumption of meat, while others, such as endometrial tumors, are linked to obesity. View quote
Umberto Veronesi
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. View quote
Aaron Schock
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from. View quote
Anne Wojcicki
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. View quote
David H. Murdock
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. View quote
Daniel Snyder
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation. View quote
Ellen Gustafson
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information. (Evgeny Morozov)
There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose. View quote
Gail Simmons
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers. View quote
Geoff Mulgan
Things like depression and obesity are global challenges. View quote
Jane McGonigal
With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own. View quote
Jennie Garth
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. View quote
Darell Hammond
Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young. View quote
Magnus Scheving
We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab frozen dinners and McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine. View quote
Nicole Ari Parker
My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him. View quote
Nita Ambani
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. (Peter Shilton)
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. View quote
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood. View quote
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it? View quote
Robert Atkins
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it. View quote
Richard Attias