Obesity Issues Quotes

I really do believe that America has this weight problem - obesity issues - and we have all these diseases that we get - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases - that are primarily lifestyle diseases.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Dog obesity is a big problem in this country.

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

Life, if you're fat is a minefield--you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

Childhood obesity affects all pedophiles.

There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.

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.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

When I was overweight, my back hurt, and my ankles would swell up. It wasn't the weight itself but the problems it brought along that bothered me.

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

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.

On flights, I cannot travel economy class, as I am too huge to fit into that space. I always have to travel business class.

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.