Obesity Quotes - Page 2

• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Humor, Sticks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Men, Weight Loss

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.370, Routledge

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.

  Bob Harper

  White, Apples, Ezekiel

  Bob Harper, Greg Critser (2012). “The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin”, p.133, Ballantine Books

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Exercise, Parenting

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Population

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the strength and the stamina they need to succeed in school and in life. And that, in turn, robs our country of so much of their promise.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Children, School

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• The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

  Robert Atkins

  Epidemics, Obesity Epidemic, People

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• The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Normal, Excess, Size

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• Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.

  Emily Levine

  Growth, Problem, Symptoms

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• If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

  Lance Armstrong

  Childhood, Tides, Problem

  Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Civilization, Disease

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• African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, School

  "Michelle Obama Dons Dots At NAACP Convention", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

  Janet Evanovich

  Finishing, Firsts, Tomorrow

  Janet Evanovich (1992). “Naughty Neighbor”, Loveswept

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• In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Cutting, Cities

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• I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation.

  Lori Silverbush

  America, People, Causes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

  Gelett Burgess

  Thirty, Fats

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• Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Men, Worry

  Washington Irving (1842). “A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published”, p.157

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• We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hands

  Song: Awakening Americans

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• Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the fat metabolism, since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality.

  Hilde Bruch

  Ideas, Done, Research

  "The Importance of Overweight".

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• Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

  Julius Caesar

  Funny, Sleep, Night

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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• Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Lanes, Traffic, Cures

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• The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

  Shannon Miller

  Teaching, Exercise, Childhood

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• Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 191

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• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

  Julius Caesar

  Looks, Cassius, Hungry

  Julius Caesar act 1, sc. 2, l. 191 (1599) See Plutarch 2

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