- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obesity Quotes
Statements on obesity, diet, and public health policy.
These quotes come from public figures discussing obesity as a health and policy issue, touching on exercise, diet, and how the condition has changed since 1980.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
- Prime Minister
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said in the past that if I were Prime Minister, I would ban obesity.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020