Top 1200 Childhood Obesity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

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

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

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

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

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

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

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

I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn't still have that same dream.

I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories of my parents in my early childhood and the solid foundations of socialisation and strong values that they gave me never left me for one day.

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.

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

It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There must be a little bit of that nostalgia - childhood is so special.

The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation.....There is no convincing scientific evidence that mass inoculations can be credited with eliminating any childhood disease.

Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

As we confront the child obesity crisis, advergames that promote unhealthy foods to kids are a real cause for concern.

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

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

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

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

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

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

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

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

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

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

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

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

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

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

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

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

I am somebody who is very comfortable on stage because I have been performing since childhood. I have done a lot of public events as well, though there is a huge difference in my performances today and the ones from my childhood, as earlier, I used to sing bhajans.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

A lot of the problems in society nowadays are down to diet and lifestyle - be that obesity, diabetes, asthma caused by smoking or drinking.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

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

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

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

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

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

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.

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

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

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures.

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

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

There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

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.

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.