Top 260 Obesity Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

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

Dog obesity is a big problem in this country.

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

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

The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.

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

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

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

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

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

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

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

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

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

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

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

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

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 don't know why we have this shame about obesity, but it's kind of a good thing that we have this shame about obesity - we shouldn't accept the fact that everyone is obese.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Obesity is a drain on the economy - we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad.

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

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

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

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

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

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

I used to have a potbelly pig named Terrance. He died of obesity.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

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

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

If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

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

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

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

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

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

In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year.

When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

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

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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