(228 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“Obesity is not gluttony,”
George Blackburn
“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
“This is the first scientific contribution that the addictive pathways are deficient in the obese and it may explain their cravings,”
“It's ironic that part of the solution to obesity might lie in sleep, the most sedentary of all human activities.”
Angelo Tremblay
“Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand and strengthen our community efforts to impact this serious health challenge, especially as it relates to our children.”
Amy Smith
“We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.”
Alan Herbert
