Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you’ve done about as much as you can to influence your aging process. – S. Jay Olshansky
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
When you talk about obesity, there’s so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There’s a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar. – Peter Shilton
The way you really find out about the performer’s seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don’t have a lot of respect for. – Robert Redford
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor. – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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. – Robert Reich
Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can do to fix it. – Richard Attias
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. – Tom Vilsack
The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time. – Stephen Furst
People come into McDonald’s two to three times a month – to extrapolate that to the cause of obesity is a real stretch. – Steve Easterbrook
Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run. – Virginia Foxx
I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy – and I had to deal with that reality or die. – Stephen Furst
I don’t know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve. – Tom Colicchio
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet. – Virginia Foxx