Obesity Quotes

• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

  Richard Carmona

  Parent, Healthy, Generations

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• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Boston

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Aspect

  "Factory meat, cruel and bad for us" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2014.

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

  Tom Vilsack

  Obesity Epidemic, Childhood, Risk

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

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• Many people believe that dealing with overweight and obesity is a personal responsibility. To some degree they are right, but it is also a community responsibility. When there are no safe, accessible places for children to play or adults to walk, jog, or ride a bike, that is a community responsibility.

  David Satcher

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

  Cyril Connolly

  Motivational, Disappointment, Loss

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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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, Obesity Epidemic, Two

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

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• We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

  Hal Varian

  Data, Problem, Poor

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• India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture that drives down the price it paid for food that it buys from farmers, who are the poorest people. Then you're paying very little for food. You're underpaying the poorest people in any society. Then they're marketing to us the things that are most profitable to them. And those are the things that are packaged and processed and what-have-you. That means you have the simple thing of the explosion of obesity and hunger as a result of capitalism in our food system.

  Raj Patel

  Mean, Simple, People

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• This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

  Judy Davis

  Kids, Parent, Dying

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• The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Exercise, People

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• Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

  Emily Levine

  People, Care, Pay

  "Hey Dems, We Want Our Milk and Cookies" by Emily Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2006.

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• 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

  Bars, Mars, Causes

  Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

  Jackie Gleason

  Funny, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• She's a twosome, she's a foursome, if she'd lose some, I would like her more some.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Like Her, Foursomes, Loses

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• We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Impact, People

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• How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Easy

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

  George Orwell

  Men, Robust, Fats

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.

  Tom Colicchio

  School, Kids, Exercise

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• 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.

  Lee Haney

  Children, Parent, Growth

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• Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

  Michelle Obama

  Simple, Issues, Childhood

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• If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

  David Agus

  Mean, Fate, Dna

  "'The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

  Lee Haney

  Exercise, America, Growth

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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, Obesity Epidemic

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