Obesity Epidemic Quotes

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.

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

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.

There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.