#overweight

There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends. ↗

— Milla Jovovich

#arts #body #confidence #controversy #everything

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

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1) ↗

— Robyn Silverman

#fat-bashing #girls #overweight #prejudice #self-esteem

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

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#likely #more #overweight #parents #than

There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way... once the doctor rules it out, that's really not it. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#doctor #issues #normal #once #out

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. ↗

— David Eagleman

#control #i #impulse #know #lab