Obesity Quotes - Page 9

• Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Issues, Childhood

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• Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year. Seventy percent of kids age 17 to 24 can't get into the US military because of health or education. Obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that the society we wanted? No. We should be working on these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk.

  Jamie Dimon

  Military, Reading, Kids

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

  Michelle Obama

  Struggle, Kids, Childhood

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• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• You know I'll kiss you for my supper. Yeah, you know I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Kissing, Dinner

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• This big fat woman bumped me on the floor, she was rarin' to go, she was rarin' to go. Then she did a dip, I almost broke my hip.

  Joe Tex

  Hips, Dip, Broke

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• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  Maeve Binchy

  Believe, Thinking, Healthy

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

  Chick Willis

  Making Love, Meat, Heat

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• Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

  Magnus

  Moving, Kids, Keys

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• We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fun, Issues, People

  "No excuses for being fat, Tories insist as they launch new deal on public health" by Deborah Summers, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2008.

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• If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

  Chick Willis

  Mistake, Taste, Bones

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• If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

  Tom Harkin

  Children, School, Obesity Epidemic

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• How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

  Robert Atkins

  Obesity Epidemic, People, Realizing

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• I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are seeing, and want to buy a different product. If people really want to see a change, they have to speak up on a daily basis to see that change. And I think that models who are suffering from an eating disorder, it is as sad to look at them as the person who is suffering from obesity or who is smoking outside their office or person who is drinking too much at the bar - everybody is suffering from something pretty much.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Girl, Drinking, Believe

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• When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Real, Stupid

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.

  LL Cool J

  Girl, Orange, Giving

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• Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

  Dick Cavett

  Mean, Judging, Tvs

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.67, Macmillan

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• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  Gail Simmons

  Real, America, Worry

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• Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Nails, Fridges, Stale

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• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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• Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

  Eminem

  Crazy, Insecurity, Alive

  Song: Hailie's Song, Album: The Eminem Show

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• I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

  Max Baucus

  Fighting, Thinking, Bully

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• It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.

  Richard Codey

  Country, Responsibility, Epidemics

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• 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, Together

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• We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

  Chris Noth

  Kids, Issues, People

  "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.

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