Obese Quotes

• More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.
  Lee Haney · Share
• Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
  Lee Haney · Share
• We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
  Jeanne Kohl-welles · Share
• This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
  Judy Davis · Share
• As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a dirty stucco wall in a thick, syrupy sunlight that was silent except for the stupid buzz of many flies.
  Stephen King · Share
• I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
  Star Jones · Share
• 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 · Share
• The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
  Virginia Foxx · Share
• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
  Bob Filner · Share
• While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
  Tim Holden · Share
• Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.
  Mike Rounds · Share
• We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese.  It is natural to develop prejudices.  It is noble to rise above them.
  Anonymous · about Prejudice · Share
• The problem keeps getting worse, ... We've seen virtually a doubling in the number of obese persons over the past two decades, and this has profound health implications.
  Tommy Thompson · Share
• I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.
  Michele Bachmann · Share
• 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 · Share

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