Michelle Obama Quotes

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

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

It's really frightening, American food on the whole. That's what always strikes me, coming from Europe: There's just so much of it! Then you plop down in front of the TV and watch ads for Weight Watchers. 'Lose weight now!' Well, eat less!

I eat a lot of pizza and really unhealthy food.

A lot of stuff, all the fast food, the cheap food, the dollar menu - I had to cut all that off.

The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

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

I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and nice cream soda. It's fantastic, but I have to be careful, or I'm going to get really fat.

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

I can live without fast food.

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

I'm a total junk food-er.

There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we're eating them every day.

I have an ongoing fight with fast food.

I have a confession to make - I am very fond of junk food.