Quotes Tagged "obesity"

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

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

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.

Health provides an important final reason to adopt a plant-based diet. Westerners are choking their arteries, fattening themselves up, and fostering cancers by consuming anymal products. How many people who live on bean salad and vegetable soup are obese? How often do those with a steady diet of vegetables and rice suffer from colon cancer? How many people living on broccoli and tofu suffer heart attacks in their middle years? Obesity, heart disease, and cancers are just three common health problems that are linked with the consumption of anymal products. To look after both our spiritual and physical health, we must adopt a vegan diet.

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.

There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.