Top 32 Quotes About Obesity In America
#1. Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
Robert Reich
#2. 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
#3. With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
Jennie Garth
#4. Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
Lee Haney
#6. I have always been willful and stubborn. It is one of my greatest sins."
"But is it a sin? If it allows you to survive? Endure? Prevail?
Robin LaFevers
#7. Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
Indra Nooyi
#8. [We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.
Eleanor Smeal
#9. What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.
Alane Ferguson
#10. There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
John Salley
#11. I will fix America's obesity problems by taking all motorized transport away from fat people. In turn, I will build an infrastructure of Fat Tunnels, where all the fat people can walk. This will create jobs and subsequent weight loss.
Olivia Munn
#12. Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
David H. Murdock
#13. Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard
#14. There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
Will.i.am
#15. America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.
Melissa Fay Greene
#16. The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.
Mireille Guiliano
#17. You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.
Jennifer Crusie
#18. Jesus does not turn away from the world, but turns to face it. Jesus came down. He turns toward. He makes his face to shine upon. He shows compassion. He sits with. His with-ness is so important that every time we say his name, we declare it - Immanuel, God with us.
Emily P. Freeman
#19. I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
John Mackey
#20. Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.
Steve Kluger
#21. What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
Robert Penn Warren
#22. The loss of body hair is interesting to anthropologists, because it is a feature that distinguishes us from our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. They have body hair, we don't.
Mark Stoneking
#23. When any of our faculties retains
a strong impression of delight or pain,
the soul will wholly concentrate on that,
neglecting any other power it has;
and thus, when something seen
or heard secures the soul in stringent grip,
time moves and yet we do not notice it.
Dante Alighieri
#24. It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
William J. Clinton
#25. All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.
Billy Graham
#26. 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.
Morgan Spurlock
#27. You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.
Joe Elliott
#28. My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history teacher. My uncles and aunts, all of them are elementary school teachers or scientists.
Cary Fukunaga
#29. It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline
#30. There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons
#31. Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.
Ian McClellan
#32. You're not where you were, and you're not where you're going. You're here, so pay attention!
Maryrose Wood
