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Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. -- Cyril Connolly
Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run. -- Virginia Foxx
Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral. -- David Letterman
Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it. -- David H. Murdock
Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this. -- Muhtar Kent
Hotel Food !! If I eat i will get Obesity, if i don't eat i will get Acidity..WHAT THE F...O...O...D !!! -- Vinay Kumar Ganji
Hotel Food !!, If i eat i will get Obesity, if i don't eat i will get Acidity...WHAT THE F...O...O...D...!! -- Vinay Kumar
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from. -- Anne Wojcicki
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it. -- Richard Attias
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
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation. -- Richard Carmona
Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
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
I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy. -- Bernard Hopkins
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing. -- Tom Harkin
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control. -- Theodore Dalrymple
I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems. -- Steve-O
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge! -- Ogden Nash
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. -- Walt Whitman
Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. -- William Shakespeare
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat. -- Gelett Burgess
A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust. -- George Orwell
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America. -- Lee Haney
Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight. -- Jonathan Gruber
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. -- Bob Filner
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
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
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
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible -- Shannon Miller
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. -- Washington Irving
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
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. -- Jean Baudrillard
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. -- Bertrand Russell
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
Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise. -- Michelle Obama
In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year. -- Michelle Obama
Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago. -- Michelle Obama
Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem. -- Indra Nooyi
Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young. -- Magnus Scheving
In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. -- Darell Hammond
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. -- Lance Armstrong
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. -- David H. Murdock
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. -- Tom Vilsack
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
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. -- Darell Hammond
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's 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
It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity. -- Lisa Ling
We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. -- Emily Levine
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. -- Jonathan Sacks
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 don't 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
We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way. -- Andrew Lansley
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
It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there's two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it's very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy. -- Nina Garcia
The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for. -- Robert Redford
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. -- Aaron Schock
We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the 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. -- Nicole Ari Parker
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. -- Carl Honore
Tackling childhood obesity is key. -- Diane Abbott
Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Things like depression and obesity are global challenges. -- Jane McGonigal
There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. -- Robert Atkins
Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity. -- Rush Limbaugh
Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes. -- Jill Stein
Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children. -- Eric Schlosser
Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran. -- Jodi Kantor
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. -- Michael Pollan
All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. -- Nathan Pritikin
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes. -- Joel Salatin
CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes. -- Bob Lutz
The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk. -- Tom Vilsack
Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young. -- Magnus Scheving
Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. -- Lewis Mumford
Bad deeds are like obesity, to get rid of, one has to go through hard Worship -- Samar Sudha
I'm very proud of my breasts, as every woman should be. It's not cellular obesity. It's womanliness. -- Anita Ekberg
There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two. -- Richard Jeni
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. -- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world. -- John Salley
The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time. -- Stephen Furst
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ... -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I share Len Saunders' concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age. -- Shannon Miller
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital. -- Daniel Snyder
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital. -- Daniel Snyder
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
It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family! -- Tony Robbins
The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program. -- Daniel Snyder
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious. -- Jim Gaffigan
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity. -- Ruby Gettinger
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers. -- Geoff Mulgan
I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me. -- Ruby Gettinger
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. -- Homer
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. -- Andrew Weil
The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel. -- Bob Harper
I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has. -- Nora Volkow
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A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health. -- Rachele Brooke Smith
The profound and primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods. -- Emmet Densmore
In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry. -- Brendan Brazier
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Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns. -- Craig Ferguson
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
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
Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic. -- Ian McClellan
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
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. -- Jo Brand
It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow. -- Konrad Lorenz
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population. -- William J. Clinton
Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately. -- Michelle Obama
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick -- David Miliband

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