“Given the epidemic of obesity in the population, it's important to know where best to intervene.”
Aviva Must
“Had double chins all the way down to his stomach”
Mark Twain
“Anybody who has thought about the childhood obesity problem sees clearly that the population needs to eat less of foods like soft drinks and sugared cereals. The industry would be a lot smarter to come up with new, healthier products than continuing to defend the bad old ones.”
Kelly Brownell
“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
“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
“This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,”
George Blackburn
“Obesity is not gluttony,”
