Obesity Quotations | Page 2

Rather than seeking personal injury damages for the consequences of obesity, there will be lawsuits based on state consumer protection laws. There's a lot of deception in the marketplace and a lot of it is relevant to the obesity epidemic. But here we don't have to prove anyone got fat.

People think there is nothing that they can do, that obesity is inevitable. This is not rocket science: It's all about how many calories you're putting in yourself, and how many are getting out. We need to go back to the basics.

Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,

Debate regarding what to do to reduce and to prevent childhood obesity is just beginning. We do know, however, that childhood obesity is increasing, and we can expect even more children to face the prospect of limited child safety seats available to protect them.

Anybody who has thought about the childhood obesity problem sees clearly that the population needs to eat less of foods like soft drinks and sugared cereals. The industry would be a lot smarter to come up with new, healthier products than continuing to defend the bad old ones.

An effective battle against obesity should be fought with personal responsibility in health care, not by government decree.

You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity in kids. I don't think any one thing is going to have a strong effect, but if we don't start to do some of these things now, we don't have a chance in hell of reducing obesity.

This is a reality check for people thinking of having obesity surgery. Patients really need to go into this with their eyes open. This can be a high-risk operation.

This is especially important nowadays with all the emphasis on obesity in children. We know that children need to learn early on that they need know how to control their bodies and their health, and continue it throughout their lives. We model it for them, and we teach them how to go about that. We talk about it with them at length, about good nutrition, about sleeping, and about getting exercise routinely.

This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity, as we get to the point of developing a vaccine, there may be a way to help combat the obesity epidemic.

This is not the answer to the obesity epidemic.

Thirty or 40 years ago, we thought smoking was a fine thing to do. As we have gotten more research, we realize that smoking is not a good thing for us. We realize that obesity is not a good thing for us. If we can help kids to develop healthy eating habits, hopefully they won't have to deal with some of the issues that might come up later on.

There really isn't an organ in the body that is safe from the effects of obesity - and the liver is a vital organ.

There's a rush to judgment that his death was related to his obesity, and that's an open-ended question. We're trying to answer the questions: Is there obesity in the NFL? And if there is obesity, are the players at more or less or the same risk as their counterparts in the real world? Those are questions we have to answer.

Assisting more people in making better choices in more frequent situations is one way the obesity epidemic could be turned around.

As obesity rates continue to grow at epidemic proportions in this country, the net effect will be dramatic increases in related chronic health conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

The more we learn about the situation when you look at the obesity rates, it's very important that this is being pulled together and we're working forward as fast as we can to implement the policy,

It's a bold and sweeping step that industry and childhood obesity advocates have decided to take together.

It reflects our commitment to reversing this tragic obesity trend, in which far too many Americans are literally eating themselves to death,

It's going to get worse before it gets better, and we can't really wait for reductions in childhood obesity to fix the problems because it's an immediate safety issue. We definitely need to see seats that have been designed and tested and approved at higher weights.

It's becoming clearer and clearer that body fat distribution is a critically important variable. And abdominal obesity is the key culprit.

The obesity epidemic in the U.S. can be largely explained by our inactive, over-indulgent lifestyle behaviors. It is possible that viruses may play a role in setting us up for becoming overweight, similar to how our genes may be programmed to lead to obesity under the right circumstances.

The best index of obesity as a predictor of myocardial infarction is the waist-to-hip ratio,

The ban on soda in Connecticut schools looks like an idea whose time has come ... even though most people don't think it will be very effective curbing obesity in children and teenagers.

That is significantly higher than most people expect when they think of obesity surgery. Patients are at higher risk for having bad things happen after surgery because of their advanced age or other conditions.

It's wide open, ... The obesity market is unique in that it is probably the largest market in the world. However, nothing really works well in terms of safety and tolerability.

It took me months to figure out how to get approved for weight loss surgery. Most people don't realize that obesity alone won't qualify you for the procedure. Insurance companies have written guidelines that they use to determine whether or not a specific medical procedure is appropriate, and it's not easy to put together a request that will pass your carrier's review process.

I want to take the benefits of what I'm doing now, and offer it to as many people as can hear it. You don't have to submit to having an unhealthy life. You can fight obesity by making your workouts fun to do. Get your body outside on skates. For all those people who have seen New Year's resolutions fall by the wayside, this is an alternative.

The fact they are blaming restaurants for creating obesity in this society is absurd, ... You're not going to end obesity in Americans by filing lawsuits against the restaurant industry.

The continuing epidemic of obesity is a critical public health concern. As a nation, we need to respond as vigorously to this epidemic as we do to an infectious disease epidemic.

The calories are working against you for heart disease. Obesity is not what you want for eating chocolate because that will defeat all the benefit.

I hope we are on track to address some of the crises that we see coming from the pipeline in the form of obesity and diabetes.

If obesity is a disease, it is the only one that I am familiar with that you can cure by taking long walks and keeping your mouth shut,

In our society, we're used to thinking of obesity as an issue of self-control. We think people aren't disciplined enough to exercise and control the food they eat. But there could be other factors that aren't in their control.

In view of the rapidly rising rates of obesity and diabetes in America, this good news could not have come at a better time, ... So many of our health problems can be avoided through diet, exercise and making sure we take care of ourselves. By promoting healthy lifestyles, we can improve the quality of life for all Americans, and reduce health care costs dramatically.

If you really want to deal with the obesity issue, you have to talk with the people who buy the food.

Being a college student, it's so hard trying to cook, or eating the cafeteria food sometimes. Obesity is definitely a problem with people of all ages.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... We have to put California on the path to good health.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... Today we are taking some first steps in creating a healthy future for California.

California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the problem.

But I think that the trusts would be better off treating obesity or getting people to lose weight rather than introducing a blanket ban,

Childhood obesity will not be significantly affected by simply taking sodas out of high school. It's an issue that needs to be looked at on a bigger scale.

Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.

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

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

I can say right off the bat that he's focused on the work of his foundation, which among many activities is treating hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients around the world, fighting childhood obesity here at home and helping tsunami and hurricane victims.

I applaud the willingness of the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi to take on the task of educating students and parents about the dangers of obesity and how they can develop healthy eating habits, both at home and at school,

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, ... But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

I call them the vanguard of the Baby Boomers. Looking at their experience shows that risk factors like obesity and hypertension are going in the wrong direction and things are being squeezed.

For over thirty years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened. We can no longer stand by as our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits.

For over 30 years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened.

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

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

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

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.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

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

The trouble with measuring the economic cost of obesity is that it's very difficult to determine whether someone incurred medical expense because they were fat, or because they had heart disease, or they had this or that.

The trial lawyers' arguments against the beverage industry don't add up. If child consumption of full-calorie soft drinks in schools is going down while childhood obesity may be going up, it doesn't make sense to single out sodas in schools as the cause for weight problems.

These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important for preventing obesity and the diseases associated with it.

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.

This is a great day for California children. This is a bold and decisive move. The state Legislature has sent a clear message that the growing childhood obesity epidemic is not going to be solved by personal responsibility alone.

The epidemic of childhood obesity is frightening. We hope that giving kids someone to look up to and root for will encourage them to make changes in their own lives.

The childhood obesity trend is on the rise and has been for decades.

The global burden of obesity has been substantially underestimated by the reliance of BMI in previous studies.

The clearest evidence of the harms of epidemic obesity comes in the form of rising rates of diabetes in both adults and children.

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

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

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

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

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!