Neal Barnard Quotes

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

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

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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.

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

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

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.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

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.

This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

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.

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.

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

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

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

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

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

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

My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.