Being responsible Quote by Robert Atkins

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 is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

— David H. Murdock

“THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against…

— Michael Prager

“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

“Obesity isn't as cool as it used to be, back in the earlier centuries. Before it was a reflection on your gross income, and…

— Jarod Kintz

“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown…

— Nina Teicholz

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

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

— Indra Nooyi

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

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in…

— S. Jay Olshansky