Diet-Related Health Issues Quotes

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

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the food. A lot of the stuff that's marketed to us tastes delicious because it fools our bodies. It fools our bodies into thinking that a particular mix of fat and salt and sugar is good for us. In fact, it isn't. That's why you're seeing in the United States life expectancies are declining, particularly in rural areas. You're seeing life expectancies falling in part because of diet.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

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

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.