Obesity Epidemic Quotes

• The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

  Tom Vilsack

  Childhood, Risk, Generations

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

  Richard Carmona

  Kids, Emotional, Epidemics

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America’s Youth" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• 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.

  Virginia Foxx

  Kids, Exercise, Numbers

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• I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Epidemics, America, Magazines

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

  Robert Atkins

  Epidemics, People, Obesity

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• How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

  Robert Atkins

  People, Realizing, Responsible

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Exercise, Parenting

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• The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley

  Epidemics, Mortality, Rate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Epidemics, Mcdonalds, Retrospect

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.213, Crown Archetype

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• There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

  Richard Jeni

  Epidemics, Two, Three

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.

  Eric Schlosser

  Country, Children, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

  Tom Harkin

  Children, School, Epidemics

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• The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Cancer, Heart, Epidemics

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Epidemics, Goal

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