Obesity Quotes - Page 3

• Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Battle, Shrinking, Addresses

  "Why the New Surgical Cure for Diabetes Will Fail!" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Genius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

  Paul Gauguin

  Funny, Mistress, Fool

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.2, Routledge

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• Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flesh, Frailty

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [184]

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• Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

  Jane McGonigal

  Challenges

  "Jane McGonigal: Game on with 'SuperBetter'" by Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. March 4, 2012.

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• Tackling childhood obesity is key.

  Diane Abbott

  Keys, Childhood, Tackling

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• The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

  Stephen Furst

  One Day At A Time, Devil, Way

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• Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

  William R. Ferris

  Struggle, Reflection, Poverty

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• I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

  Pete Seeger

  Morning, Paper, Breakfast

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• Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.

  Richard Carmona

  Loss, Years, People

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• I dont 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.

  Tom Colicchio

  Kids, Curves, Vegetables

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• Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

  David Letterman

  Navy, Problem, Bigs

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• 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.

  Andrew Weil

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "Intermittent Fasting: A Healthy Choice" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• We can all agree that government cant solve the obesity crisis alone. Its an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Government, Issues, Long

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• Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Childhood, Childhood Obesity

  Twitter post from Oct 12, 2011

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• In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.

  Matt Ridley

  Jobs, Heart, Blood

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• Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.

  Po Bronson

  Children, Kids, Media

  Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson (2010). “Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong”, p.39, Random House

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• Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.

  Roxane Gay

  Thinking, People, Walking Dead

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm very proud of my breasts, as every woman should be. It's not cellular obesity. It's womanliness.

  Anita Ekberg

  Proud, Should, Breasts

  "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, People, Greed

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.99, Profile Books

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• The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.

  Radley Balko

  Thinking, Choices, Body

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• Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Body Weight, Addresses, May

  "Ex-ObamaCare adviser Gruber: Tax fat people by body weight" by Patrick Howley, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2015.

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• There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities are failing to give Americans the information they need to make informed choices. You look at the food we're eating and the obesity epidemic and realize there is something fundamentally wrong about our nutritional habits. So across the board there is something fundamentally unjust about every aspect of our personal lives.

  Kalle Lasn

  Heart, Giving, Profound

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Subsidies, Poverty

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• For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fda, Vegetables, Firsts

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