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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…

— Tom Harkin

“The obesity pandemic is due to our altered biochemistry, which is a result of our altered environment.”

— Robert H. Lustig

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

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“I believe that human beings are designed to be physically active and that not doing so creates energy imbalances within the body that ultimately…

— Dr. Nina Cherie Franklin

“Ascribing personal responsibility to the obese individual is not a rational argument for an eminently practical reason: it fails to advance any efforts to…

— Lustig Robert

“Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat; the same number today suffer from being overweight…..For the first time…

— Felicity Lawrence

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat,…

— Marion Nestle

“On the other hand, when you mismanage your genes with poor dietary habits or chronic exercise patterns, you will likely suffer from obesity (through…

— Mark Sisson

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

— Indra Nooyi

Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a…

— David L. Katz

“Obesity is not about a lack of willpower or an individual who has no self respect.  Obesity is about science and malfunctions in the…

— T.C. Hale