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In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
- John Seabrook
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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.
- MarĂa Blasco Marhuenda
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I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
- Morgan Spurlock
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How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
- Robert Atkins
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As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
- Ellen Gustafson
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
- Anne Wojcicki
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
- Richard Carmona
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Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
- Richard Attias
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Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.
- Bruce Broussard
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With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
- Jennie Garth
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Tackling childhood obesity is key.
- Diane Abbott
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I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.
- Max Baucus
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If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.
- David Agus
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People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.
- Steve Easterbrook
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I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.
- Stephen Furst
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Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.
- Andrew Lansley
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I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
- Aaron Schock
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Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.
- Virginia Foxx
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In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.
- Aravind Adiga
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The Redskins have been active champions in the fight against childhood obesity through our commitment with the NFL Play 60 program.
- Daniel Snyder
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As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.
- Daniel Snyder
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The mice that had the resveratrol in their diet were still obese, but they were seemingly or relatively immune to the effects of the obesity. So their arteries were clear, their liver was nice and thin. Their bones were stronger. They could run further.
- David Andrew Sinclair
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It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
- Lisa Ling
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My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.
- Nita Ambani
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The weight loss came about because a buddy of mine who was diagnosed with diabetes because of his obesity told me that I was fat. And I started laughing, and he was like, 'No seriously, you're fat.' And I said, 'Oh wow, really.'
- Carlos Mencia
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While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
- Tim Holden
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The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.
- Robert Redford
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We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.
- Andrew Lansley
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The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
- Robert Atkins
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I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
- Arjun Kapoor
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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.
- Steve-O
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The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
- Tom Vilsack
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Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
- Laurie David
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The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
- Joel Fuhrman
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The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
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When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.
- Peter Shilton
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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.
- Robert Reich
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Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.
- Jill Biden
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A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.
- Joel Fuhrman
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The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
- Virginia Foxx
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There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.
- John Salley
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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.
- Joel Fuhrman
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You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.
- Jean Nidetch
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
- Lance Armstrong
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Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.
- Richard Thaler
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Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.
- Emily Levine
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Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
- Jane Velez-Mitchell
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The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
- Tom Vilsack
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By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.
- David H. Murdock
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
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Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
- Frans van Houten
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Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
- Lee Haney
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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.
- Mark Hyman
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