We’ve collected the best Obesity Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Steve-O, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Dean Ornish, David H. Murdock, Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Use them as an inspiration.
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I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.
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An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, soy products and fish in your diet. Eat at home more with your family and friends.
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We still don’t know what evolutionary significance to attach to it, but it is at the very least interesting that a telomere gene is related to obesity.
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People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
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Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer‘s disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don’t automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.
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Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
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Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we’ve been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on ‘perfect‘ bodies.
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Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children’s development and reducing the nation‘s epidemic of childhood obesity.
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Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven‘t been priorities in America: it’s been about money. You see, in the countries that fought for time, they cook more often; they have less obesity. There are real benefits to having time.
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People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don’t know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.
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We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.
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As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.
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Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.