Obese Quotes

In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

Gary Taubes
- Increase
- Diabetes
- Obese
When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Cynthia Heimel
- Women
- Excited
- Weight

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

Marion Nestle
- People
- Time
- Great
Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.

Neal Barnard
Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

Mike Rounds
- Problem
- Serious
- Disease
There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

Lisa Ling
- Child
- Factors
- Obese
Is It Baby Fat or Real Fat? The answer partly depends on the parents. A study of 854 Washington State children under three years old showed that a child is nearly three times as likely to grow up obese if one of his parents is obese. If you’re overweight, your child has a 65–75 percent chance of growing up to be overweight. So, is that little paunch on your fourth grader baby fat? Not if you’re sporting the same paunch.

Brian Wansink
- Children
- Parents
- Answer
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Paul Polman
- Hungry
- Billion
- Obese