#overweight

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

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. ↗

— David Zinczenko

#elitism #masses #more #new #overweight

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#being #being smart #belly #body #curiosity

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important. ↗

— Jo Brand

#even #i #i always #important #look

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#age #anorexic #because #compared #doing

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#age #compared #i #lot #overweight

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#bread #calories #crust #far #find

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. ↗

— Paula Deen

#causes #come #diabetes #five #food

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses. ↗

— David Keith

#grade #hair #i #long #long hair

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees