Obesity Quotes - Page 8

• Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Children

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• When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Moving, Kids

  Michelle Obama's Remarks During White House Convening on Food Marketing to Children, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 18, 2013.

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• Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

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• Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

  David Miliband

  Sick, Childhood, Environmental

  David Miliband's Speech at TUC Congress, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2006.

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• By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beauty, Oil

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

  Roscoe Arbuckle

  Funny, Pounds, Hundred

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• 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.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Cancer, Heart, Epidemics

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• 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

  Children, Epidemics, Childhood

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin

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• I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

  Shannon Miller

  Kids, Childhood, Age

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• Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Wife, Popcorn, Neighbor

  Song: Bank Of Bad Habits, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• ... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

  Charles H. Percy

  Cancer, Heart, Exercise

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• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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• One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.

  David B. Sandalow

  Years, California, Trying

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• I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Earthquakes, People

  "Bachmann: Hurricane Irene Was Message From God" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. August 29, 2011.

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• 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

  People, Risk, Age

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• Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love.

  Jim Croce

  Girl, Fat Girl, Fats

  Song: Nobody Loves A Fat Girl, 2003

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• I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Writing, Issues

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

  Lisa Ling

  Kids, Parent, Way

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• Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

  Ray Davies

  Trying, Mama, Break

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• How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

  J. G. Holland

  Spiritual, Long, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• If the fat people just gave the skinny people more food, we could all just eat... We could solve obesity and hunger at the same time.

  Ashton Kutcher

  People, Skinny, Hunger

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• As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

  Daniel Snyder

  Real, Childhood, Problem

  "Athletes Hit Hill For Kid Health". Politico, September 28, 2010.

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• We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Struggle, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Eating With a Spiritual Compass" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.

  Jim Croce

  Might, Nasty, Fats

  Song: Roller Derby Queen

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• Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

  Bob Dylan

  Liars, Sleep, Men

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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