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• My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

  Jack LaLanne

  Dad, Young, Unhealthy

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• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, Twenties, Hollywood

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• P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

  Herschel Walker

  School, Kids, Speech

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• Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

  Jo Brand

  Girl, Nice, Important

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2009.

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• It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.

  Anne Rice

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Anne Rice defends Paula Deen" by Erin Strecker, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2013.

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• What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?

  Robert Atkins

  Eye, Dark, Age

  Robert C. Atkins (1972). “Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever”

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• You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Parent, Ifs

  "How Social Networks Control Your Health" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Ellen Gustafson

  Children, Two, America

  "Solving the world's hunger and obesity crises together" by Ellen Gustafson, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.

  Jillian Michaels

  Dog, Stupid, Kids

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Mother, Mean, Frustration

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

  Arabella Weir

  Children, Real, Coffee

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• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

  Judith Martin

  Hair, Attention, Red

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• Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

  Alison Sweeney

  Children, Believe, Heart

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• Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

  Craig David

  Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

  Andrew Flintoff

  Ugly

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• Now I'm searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn't have a date and isn't too depressing to be around. It's getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Friends, Depressing, Girlfriend

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• We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.

  Richard Simmons

  Believe, Pigs, People

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• I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Drug, Age

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• That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Children, Loss, Views

  Jeff Schweitzer, Larry Deutsch (2011). “Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction”, p.7, Dr. Larry Deutsch

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• That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

  Stephanie Klein

  Pain, Health, Kids

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• When I was overweight and unhappy, I thought about being smaller, I thought about fitting into different clothes and feeling comfortable in any environment or social situation. But I didn't do anything about it. I was letting myself fall victim to not planning, not clarifying steps to reach my goals. Don't go on just wanting something. Start consciously planning where you want to be.

  Ali Vincent

  Fall, Health, Clothes

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.

  R.A. The Rugged Man

  Sex, Rap, Dirty

  Song: Da' Girlz, They Luv Me, Album: Die, Rugged Man, Die, 2004

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• Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.

  Robert Haugen

  Important, Information, Significance

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121, 1999.

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• It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

  Carnie Wilson

  Stress, Just Being, Dangerous

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