Obesity Quotes

“A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.”
― Banksy

“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.”
― Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman

“About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.”
― Larry McCleary MD, Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly

“Oh, pity the poor glutton
Whose troubles all begin
In struggling on and on to turn
What's out into what's in.”
― Walter de la Mare

“Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever.”
― Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman

“On need of supplement & vitamins- "If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.”
― Subodh Gupta, 7 habits of skinny woman

“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.”
― craig ferguson

“However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.”
― Lionel Shriver, Big Brother

“Associated with this weight gain are increased risks
in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart
attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death.
Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating
adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy
nearly $150 billion in 2009.”
― Jeff Schweitzer, Calorie Wars: Fat, Fact and Fiction

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be able to enjoy their food ever for the rest of their life whether it is Christmas or they are on their holidays or their child birthday or any other festival.

List of problems and complications after the weight loss surgery operation are endless as one may get additional problems such as Hernia, Internal Bleeding, Swelling of the skin around the wounds, etc. I wonder how many weight loss surgeons advice about weight loss surgery to their own family members.”
― Subodh Gupta, 7 Food Habits for Weight Loss Forever

“We become fat by overeating, not by not exercising.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Food processors, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and clothes-washing machines have substancially lessened the physical activity required to cook and clean. Air conditioners and central heating have decreased how much energy our bodies spend to maintain a stable body temperature. Countless other devices, such as electric can openers, remote controls, electric razors and suitcases on wheels, have reduced, calorie by calorie, the amount of energy we expend to exist.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“if you look in the mirror and see someone who is obviously overweight, that means you're fucking fat”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Nothing over the last few million years of human history has changed human energetics as much as the low cost of working at a desk using machines run by electric power.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“One of the ironies of industrialization is that its spread across the globe has required more people to spend more time sitting.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“In short, the Industrial Revolution was actually a combination of technological, economical, scientific and social transformations that rapidly and radically altered the course of history and reconfigured the face of the planet in less than ten generations -a true blink of an eye by the standards of evolutionary time.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“The bottom line, is that fat is vital for all species, but specially for humans.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“Increasing technologies, globalisation, and wealth, along with sedentary jobs, have led to a much less active lifestyle for many humans, with consequences for general health and increasing rates of overweight and obesity. This lack of exercise coupled with malnutrition, specifically referring here to poor-quality, obesogenic diets, are thought to be responsible for epidemics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“If, though, the phenotype then encountered an environment richer than expected, the thrifty phenotype might be -mismatched- to the greater abundance. It is this mismatch, it is argued, that has led to the prosperity for adults to develop obesity and other metabolic disorders during adulthood in our contemporary, industrialised environments.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“The Dunkin Donuts slogan “America runs on Dunkin” scares the hell out of me. The suggestion that a country prides itself on being “nourished” on donuts and lattés is rather curious.”
― A. Breeze Harper, Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

“What we eat is determined by the food around us, its price and how it's marketed--that is what needs to change.”
― Chris van Tulleken

“Obesity obliterates your beauty and puts your health and life at grave risk.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Conscious breathing can increase heart rate variability, which improves a range of symptoms such as stress, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, fatigue, obesity, depression, and aging.”
― Dan Brulé, Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond

“Fix poverty and you prevent a lot of both lung cancer and obesity.”
― Chris van Tulleken, Ultra-Processed People / How to Lose Weight Well / How to Lose Weight Well: The Complete Diet Plans

“Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations.”
― George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet