First time Quote by Felicity Lawrence

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already…

— Morgan Spurlock

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…

— Judy Davis

American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of…

— Joel Fuhrman

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of…

— Alison Sweeney

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 number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and…

— Virginia Foxx

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition.…

— Jonathan Sacks

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

Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and…

— Neal Barnard

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

— Tom Vilsack

“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the…

— Michael Pollan

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly,…

— Cat Cora