Quotes About Childhood Obesity

#1. More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

Morgan Spurlock

#2. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Bob Filner

#3. The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.

Daniel Snyder

#4. The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.

Shannon Miller

#5. 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.

Tom Harkin

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

Daniel Snyder

#7. To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

Tom Vilsack

#8. Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

Michelle Obama

#9. Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

Darell Hammond

#10. Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

Michelle Obama

#11. For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time,

Michelle Obama

#12. We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

Dennis Kucinich

#13. Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Diane Abbott

#14. If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

Richard Carmona

#15. I share Len Saunders' concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Shannon Miller

#16. The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

Frances Beinecke

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

Lance Armstrong

#18. Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick

David Miliband

#19. If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in
parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

Tom Harkin

#20. Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

Michelle Obama

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

Tom Vilsack

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

Darell Hammond

#23. If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

Alton Brown

#24. Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Graham Elliot

#25. 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.

S. Jay Olshansky

#26. Childhood obesity isn't some simple, discrete issue. There's no one cause we can pinpoint. There's no one program we can fund to make it go away. Rather, it's an issue that touches on every aspect of how we live and how we work.

Michelle Obama

#27. Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

Anthony Jeselnik

#28. 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.

Richard Carmona

#29. The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

Hugh Casson

#30. Humanity is not that difficult to understand; it is inhumanity that I cannot decipher.

John Kramer

#31. It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along

Benjamin Constant

#32. Everything you know gained from experience

Jostein Gaarder

#33. I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame ... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Marc Almond

#34. Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

James Howard Kunstler

#35. There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

John Connolly

#36. When I speak, I speaks.

Robert Creeley

#37. Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Thomas Hughes

#38. The longer I have been on the raw food path, the more I tend to come full circle and return to where my original ideas and inspiration of wanting to eat raw food come from - and that's natural hygiene and its principles.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#39. The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

A.J. Liebling

#40. Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

Orson Scott Card

#41. Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

Tom Magliozzi

#42. When a man is walking in his purpose there is only room for one woman to walk with him.

Stephan Labossiere

#43. Maybe if we'd had more information...It wouldn't have made a difference at all. Those doors were already locked. What was going to happen was already a foregone conclusion. All that could have changed is the details.

Sometimes, it's the details that matter the most of all.

Mira Grant