Diet Quote by Larry McCleary MD

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to…

— Richard Louv

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

— Paul Zane Pilzer

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

— Banksy

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

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

“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home,…

— Michael Pollan

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

“for the vast majority of people, being overweight is not caused by how much they eat but by what they eat.”

— Matt Stone

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early…

— Lois Capps

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging,…

— Kenneth H. Cooper

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and…

— Mark Hyman