Top 1200 Child Obesity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

Yes, we know that obesity is an issue, but it isn't the end of the world as is reported everywhere.

There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

I'm very proud of my breasts, as every woman should be. It's not cellular obesity. It's womanliness.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too.

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

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

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the fact that sometimes your child's identity won't be what you would have chosen. And if you want to prevent a child from ever suffering? Well, then don't have a child. No one is born into the world never to suffer.

When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun.

People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.

The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

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

If you can show your child what its like to be charming and giving, show your child what love is really all about and show your child unconditional love, show your child caring and compassion and understanding the nonjudgmental and that is what your child will become.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

Yoga can get at the roots of issues that cause behaviors leading to obesity, heart disease, and stress.

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap.

It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a steep slope, but I held the child in my arms firmly and without faltering. Then suddenly my footing gave way ... I had enough time to put the child down before plunging into the abyss. The child is our idea. In spite of all obstacles it will prevail.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

We still don't know what evolutionary significance to attach to it, but it is at the very least interesting that a telomere gene is related to obesity.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.

The path to obesity is paved with bacon and white bread; the way to skinny is built on apples and Ezekiel.

I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child's body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

I've said in the past that if I were Prime Minister, I would ban obesity.

One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.

Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.

I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity.