“We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die,”
Tommy Thompson
“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
“When you look at the state of many minorities, and the rise in obesity and diabetes -- especially African-Americans and Hispanics -- we excel at dying. That simply can't be ignored.”
Roniece Weaver
“It reflects our commitment to reversing this tragic obesity trend, in which far too many Americans are literally eating themselves to death,”
“Had double chins all the way down to his stomach”
Mark Twain
“The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”
Jean Baudrillard
“Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year,”
Dr. C. Everett Koop
