Obesity Epidemic Quotes

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it's all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin' Donuts.

Here's what the kids get. They get free McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken for a year, and 52 six-packs of Pepsi. And I'm thinking, well, actually, it might be healthier if they were taking steroids.

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Vicke is so fat that she wakes up in sections.

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.

Too many Americans are getting sick on our over-commercialized food system.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.