Mark Hyman Quotes

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

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

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.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

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.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

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?

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.

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

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.

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

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.

It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

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

We found enough fat in the Defense Department to send a truck of potato chips to the obese.

A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

I don't know why we have this shame about obesity, but it's kind of a good thing that we have this shame about obesity - we shouldn't accept the fact that everyone is obese.

Most of my family is severely overweight. It's been taxing to keep my weight under control.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

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

I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.