Regis Philbin Quotes

'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

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

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

I have the most guilty, abusive relationship with McDonald's. Left to my own devices, I'd probably eat four Big Macs a week.

They make documentaries like 'Fast Food Nation.' The food our kids are eating in schools, the vending machines kids go to a lot, the portions of food that American restaurants are serving that are bigger than anywhere else in the world - it's kind of crazy.

I don't want to be the Pied Piper of fast food.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry.

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

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.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.

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

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man – public opinion.

There is a deliberate effort to undermine food culture to sell us processed food. The family meal is a challenge if you're General Mills or Kellogg or one of these companies, or McDonald's, because the family meal is usually one thing shared.