Steven Blair Quotations

We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, ... We focus on obesity and not on other health habits and other risk factors.

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key.

It cuts your risk of becoming depressed, and if you are depressed, it helps ameliorate the symptoms,

This is something everybody can do. And you don't even have to do the 30 minutes all at one time. If you fit in three 10-minute walks, get another 2,000 or 3,000 steps, that's great. You are beginning to get close to a healthful dose of physical activity.

There's been a hysteria in place over the last many years,

If you exercise, you call into action nearly every body system including your heart and lungs, and molecules and hormones dash madly around the body.