“What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor for adult obesity, once we accounted for the earlier overweight [as children]. So, it appears that the timing of menarche is a consequence, rather than a risk factor for adult overweight.”
Aviva Must
“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
“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 is not gluttony,”
George Blackburn
“Because research has shown that obesity in children today has tripled in the last 20 years and is becoming perhaps the biggest threat to the health and welfare of future generations,”
Jared Fogle
“This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,”
“Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... There is not a miracle pill that will lead to weight loss.”
Richard Carmona
