Obesity is the state of being grossly fat or overweight.

1. The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
Robert Atkins

2. I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
Star Jones

3. Prevention of childhood obesity needs to begin before a woman ever gets pregnant.
Pamela Salsberry

4. I'm not saying America has an obesity problem, but our civil rights debates now hinge on fried chicken.
Ben Kuchera

5. It's a recipe for disaster when your country has an obesity epidemic and a skinny jean fad.
Anonymous

6. We are very concerned with the level of childhood obesity, … We don’t want this generation of young people to live fewer years than their parents.
Mike Johanns

7. To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party
Anonymous

8. Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.
Cyril Connolly

9. Obesity is not because it runs in the family, its because, no one runs in the family
Anonymous

10. With the chronic obesity in America, it’s more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
Jennie Garth

11. As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring.
Heidi Murkoff

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

13. Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year.
Dr. C. Everett Koop

14. Childhood obesity is a real problem.
Susan Neely

15. The problem is that obesity runs in our family. No, the problem is that no one runs in your family
Anonymous

16. The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
Tom Vilsack

17. We don’t have those lifestyles where we go to bed when the sun goes down. If it were true that nighttime eating made you fat, everyone in Spain would be obese — because they don’t eat dinner until 10 p.m.
Leslie Bonci

18. Slowly but surely, we’re beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.
Michelle Obama

19. The commonest form of malnutrition in the western world is obesity.
Mervyn Deitel

20. And graze ourselves up to a nice level of morbid obesity.
Dan John

21. If we can reduce (obesity) for a 10-year-old, their chance of being obese at 35 is lessened.
Bonnie Hoppel

22. We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and girls.
Cynthia Ogden

23. 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.
Mike Rounds

24. In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.
Darell Hammond

25. Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years.
Anonymous

26. More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight – and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.
Morgan Spurlock

27. We've always been struggling with obesity in medicine. We've all recognized it will take a community effort to tackle the problem.
Barbara Smith

28. This could be the critical step in preventing childhood obesity.
Jim Hill

29. We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
Hal Varian

30. Obesity is the terror within.
Richard Carmona

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31. Obesity is a significant problem in people and animals.
Dr. Gregory Ogilvie

32. If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong

33. Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren’t obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.
Po Bronson

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35. Childhood obesity isn’t about looks. And it’s not about weight. It’s about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn’t a generation ago.
Michelle Obama

35. Tackling childhood obesity is key.
Diane Abbott

36. 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.
Richard Carmon

37. There are few chemicals that we as a people are exposed to that have as many far reaching physiological affects on living beings as Monosodium Glutamate does. MSG directly causes obesity, diabetes, triggers epilepsy, destroys eye tissues, is genotoxic in many organs and is the probable cause of ADHD and Autism. Considering that MSG’s only reported role in food is that of ‘flavour enhancer’ is that use worth the risk of the myriad of physical ailments associated with it? Does the public really want to be tricked into eating more food and faster by a food additive?
John E. Erb

38. Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
Diane Abbott

39. We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn’t give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don’t have that problem because they’re not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.
Chris Noth

40. If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in — parents, schools, and yes even Congress.
Anonymous

41. Obesity is a disease. It makes everything taste good except salad.
Anonymous

42. Obesity is not a disease, you're just fat, fattie. And even if it was, cheeseburgers and fries are hardly the cure, now are they?
Anonymous

43. Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it’s critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.
Michelle Obama

44. The childhood obesity trend is on the rise and has been for decades.
Lara Trifilett

45. The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk
Anonymous

46. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner

47. When people are told to ‘eat many small meals,’ what they may actually hear is ‘eat all the time,’ making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It’s no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.
Andrew Weil

48. If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1of8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.
Alton Brown

49. Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents
Richard Carmonn

50. People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don’t know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.
Marco Armet

51. The problem is that obesity runs in my family.No… the problem is that nobody runs in your family
Anonymous

52. Obesity is a dying 'weigh' of life.
Anonymous

53. The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.
Tom Vilsack

54. All good things in life are either immoral or lead to obesity.
Emilia Pardo Bazan

55. It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.
Lisa Ling

56. It’s not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family…It’s that no one runs in you family
Tony Robbins

57. Fat people are funny … until obesity pays your loved one a visit.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

58. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Bob Filner

59. 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!
Jay Leno

60. Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.
Richard Simmons

61. This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids – and this is the problem with school lunch right now – are getting sugar, fat, empty calories – lots of calories – but no nutrition.
Tom Colicchio

62. We want to make people aware of the obesity problem in the country. Obesity is a direct result of inactivity and poor food choices.
Ryan Miller