Nora Volkow Quotes

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

A fat person lives shorter but eats longer.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

It's not okay to be fat - not because of the way you look, but because it's unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It's not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don't want to develop health problems.

I was a food junkie.

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!

I've been overweight all my life.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

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.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.

When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

Vicke is so fat that she wakes up in sections.