Children Quote by Neal Barnard

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

“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

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

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because…

— Richard Simmons

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

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

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

— Richard Simmons

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

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

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

There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

— Richard Jeni

Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take…

— Michelle Obama