Around the world Quote by Laurie Cunningham

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

— Lori Lansens

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

— Kathleen Sebelius

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

— William Foege

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

— Bill Gates

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the…

— John Scalzi

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

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

— Jill Stein

Even very low-income communities are seeing rising rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease as a result. But many countries lack the tax…

— Annie Lowrey

“India, where a surging rate of obesity is now worrying health care officials as much as malnutrition”

— Michael Moss

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

— Margaret Chan

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley