Obesity Quotes

• So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

  

  Wess Stafford
  • Huge
  • Spending
  • Calories

• We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

  

  Hal Varian
  • Problem
  • Poor
  • Calories

• Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.

  

  Chick Willis
  • Meat
  • Heat
  • Fats

• Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

  

  Muhtar Kent
  • Government
  • Issues
  • Obesity

• This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Problem

• Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

  

  Jacinda Ardern
  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Prevention

• Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Problems
  • Examples
  • Reducing

• The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Children
  • Insecurity
  • Hunger

• In fact, the number one reason for obesity in North America is simple: over consumption. And we over consume because we're hungry.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Reason
  • Hungry
  • Consumption

• It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Obesity
  • Public health problem

• The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

  

  Stephen Furst
  • Time
  • Deal
  • Diabetes

• The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Problem
  • Extremes
  • Dieting

• We're fit, we're healthy, we eat right, we work out. Plus size model does not mean that we're not healthy. Plus size is not glamourising obesity: it's about empowering. The message behind the fashion is feeling confident in whatever you're wearing.

  

  Hayley Hasselhoff
  • Healthy
  • Obesity
  • Plus size model

• In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.

  

  Michael Moss
  • Aspect
  • Increase
  • Consumption

• The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Risk
  • Childhood
  • Generations

• More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

  

  Morgan Spurlock
  • Childhood
  • Adults
  • Billions

• The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Important
  • Causes
  • Physical

• To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Moving
  • Childhood
  • Strategy

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