#obesity

Tackling childhood obesity is key. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#key #obesity #tackling

If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight. ↗

— Subodh Gupta

#fitness #food #health #nutrition #obesity

Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. ↗

— Subodh Gupta

#food #health #nutrition #obesity #self-help

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#long #long run #obesity #problem #ramifications

Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009. ↗

— Jeff Schweitzer

#lose-weight #obesity #overweight #weight-loss #death

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them? ↗

— Wess Stafford

#diet #excercise #hunger #obesity #poverty

Let's be honest about the "war on obesity." It's a war on people with a particular body type, funded by diet companies. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#diets #obesity #diet

Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted. ↗

— Gary Taubes

#calories #confirmation-bias #diet #dieting #government

If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#obesity #funny

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America. ↗

— Lee Haney

#best #exercise #growth #obesity #preventing