Morgan Spurlock Quotes

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

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.

Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

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

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

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

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

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

Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

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

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

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

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.

Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

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.

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.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.