Adults Quote by Richard Louv

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

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

That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front…

— Jeff Schweitzer

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

“Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That…

— Larry McCleary MD

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

“A 2002 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that nearly half of all Americans have a chronic health condition. The Centers for…

— Judith D. Schwartz

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

— Richard Jeni

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's…

— Jay Leno

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now averagewhich means, you have met your New Year's…

— Jay Leno

“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

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

— Banksy