Best Obesity Lines
187 Obesity quotes by 143 unique authors
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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make…
— Jennie Garth
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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.…
— Tom Colicchio
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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,…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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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
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Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
— Lee Haney
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While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in…
— Tim Holden
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually…
— Washington Irving
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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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…
— Robert Redford
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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…
— Bertrand Russell
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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…
— Jonathan Sacks
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We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences…
— David Suzuki
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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
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The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
— Tom Vilsack
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To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of…
— Tom Vilsack
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Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
— Andrew Weil
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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…
— Andrew Weil
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
— Walt Whitman
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There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and…
— will.i.am
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I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
— Geoff Mulgan
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
— Ellen Bass
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Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,…
— Michael Pollan
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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