Jim Rohn Quotes

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

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

Where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

I am pretty sedentary and I spend most of my time sitting on my bum reading things on the internet! It will do me good to have to exercise a little bit more.

Our 'convenience culture' translates into too-available entertainment options, fast food, sedentary transportation, and the like. The fact is, if you want to eat right and live a healthy lifestyle, you have to work at it.

I swear on my mum's life, I've never done a day's exercise.

Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.

Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn't exactly fun - there's only so much you can do.

I have never been a physically engaged person. Like, I was not an athletic kid. I was the kid who came up with a thousand excuses not to take a gym class. Even now, if I could, I would do all my work from bed.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.

The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

The only way you can hurt the body is not use it.

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.