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AVIVA MUST I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Nanotechnology will eventually apply to all cancers. However, this grant is focusing on breast and p...
BILL TODD Nanotechnology will eventually apply to all cancers. However, this grant is focusing on breast and p...
BILL TODD This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity,...
LEAH WHIGHAM What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f...
AVIVA MUST
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... Ther... RICHARD CARMONA We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, .....
STEVEN BLAIR Debate regarding what to do to reduce and to prevent childhood obesity is just beginning. We do know...
LARA TRIFILETTI Fiber has been associated with a lower risk of diseases such as Type II diabetes and obesity. By inc...
LISA MCDERMOTT
It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first pl... LISA LING We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.
ALAN HERBERT Primary prevention of these cancers has largely been neglected, but we now have proof that the incid...
CEDRIC GARLAND Primary prevention of these cancers has largely been neglected, but we now have proof that the incid...
CEDRIC F. GARLAND There is an urgent need for improved therapies for weight loss assistance in the United States. The ...
JUDY CAMERON
Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet eff... ROBERT REICH Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three ...
DR. C. EVERETT KOOP Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United Stat...
DUANE ALEXANDER We already know this, certainly, and we also know that poverty and obesity are very clearly linked. ...
CATHY NONAS We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Lately there has been an increase in childhood obesity and the government has taken an interest in p...
KAY PARMAIN
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes... ROBERT KIYOSAKI Even if fast-food critics are well-meaning in their intentions, they are trying to fix a very legiti...
LISA RICKARD I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in can...
HAROLD E. VARMUS Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ...
MIKE ROUNDS These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, b...
ELIZABETH NABEL These findings suggest that there's a novel brain-signaling pathway in obesity-related heart failure...
DR. JOSHUA M. HARE We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deat...
HEATHER LOGAN We have an obesity epidemic, with more than 20 percent of our 7-17 year old children in urban center...
WANG LONGDE Anybody who has thought about the childhood obesity problem sees clearly that the population needs t...
KELLY BROWNELL These findings suggest there's a novel brain-signaling pathway in obesity-related heart failure and ...
JOSHUA M. HARE
Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are as... JOEL FUHRMAN The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related...
KIMBERLY WILLIAMS-PAISLEY
Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem. INDRA NOOYI If it were as easy as telling parents to have their children eat healthier and exercise more, I don'...
DR. JULIE LUMENG
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ... HUGH MACKAY
Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We wer... DAVID BAILEY These results do not support previous notions that a low-fat diet is the cause of the obesity epidem...
EVA OBARZANEK There's a rush to judgment that his death was related to his obesity, and that's an open-ended quest...
ELLIOT PELLMAN The state of health is so poor at conception. The parents of the boomers didn't have the burden of e...
DR. MAXINE HAYES
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, ... DARELL HAMMOND Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand a...
AMY SMITH I hope we are on track to address some of the crises that we see coming from the pipeline in the for...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN GARCIA I hope we are on track to address some of the crises that we see coming from the pipeline in the for...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN BONNIE GARCIA I have not always been fat. I have certainly never been this fat. I am shocked, sometimes, at how un...
JOANNA FRANKLIN BELL The two leading preventable causes of mortality are cigarette smoking and abdominal obesity and we h...
DOUGLAS GREENE He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon.
BOB STERN Based on the statistics, most of the charges saying that obesity caused various diseases or that obe...
ERIC OLIVER We are staying away from food, especially fast food, because of the obesity problems in the schools.
DANIEL SHEARER People come into McDonald's two to three times a month - to extrapolate that to the cause of obe...
STEVE EASTERBROOK Obesity, hypertension and diabetes are just three diseases that disproportionately affect communitie...
DR. ADEWALE TROUTMAN TMS appears to be an effective technique to help college freshmen resist gaining weight in an enviro...
DAVID LEVITSKY We are concerned by the high levels of obesity and low levels of physical activity among elementary-...
CLARA HEMPHILL Our study is one more piece of evidence that overweight and obesity do increase health risks, whethe...
LIJING YAN I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhoo...
AARON SCHOCK You're not going to be able to find one thing that is going to be the be-all and end-all in obesity ...
CATHY NONAS The continuing epidemic of obesity is a critical public health concern. As a nation, we need to resp...
JEFFREY KOPLAN Since we know S6K1 is linked to obesity and insulin resistance, learning that it can actually be tur...
GEORGE THOMAS
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors a... JOEL FUHRMAN
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. MICHAEL POLLAN The fact they are blaming restaurants for creating obesity in this society is absurd, ... You're not...
STEVEN ANDERSON As far as DNA testing, we're just at the beginning of that universe. Pretty soon, though, we'll know...
ALAN MILSTEIN There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cau...
ADELLE DAVIS As childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes continue to rise at unprecedented rates, it is crucial that...
DR. GOUTHAM RAO
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th... S. JAY OLSHANSKY
Cancers of all types among women are increasing. GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND Obesity in middle age increases the risk of future dementia.
DR RACHEL WHITMER
California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the p... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If one could predict the potential of an adenovirus to cause human obesity by using an in vitro assa...
FRANK GREENWAY We help the children to identify the behaviors leading to obesity and change them.
DR. GOUTHAM RAO
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic... ANDREW WEIL
The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an importan... RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY Obesity is a very complex disease, and this metabolic pathway probably does not fully explain obesit...
DEBORAH MUOIO It is not news that obesity and related disorders are a major health concern for the U.S.. If it has...
KAREN OLSON A preponderance of evidence, from the best observational studies the medical world has to offer, gat...
CEDRIC F. GARLAND African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White ...
CEDRIC GARLAND African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White ...
CEDRIC F. GARLAND
Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we hav... ANDREW LANSLEY Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in muc...
DAVID L. KATZ
I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emo... ROBERT H. SCHULLER We are so thankful to be able to provide the kids with extra types of activities in this day and age...
DAWNA BATES
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First La... RICHARD CARMONA
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ... VIRGINIA FOXX Obesity is a problem that nearly every nation in the world is facing, but there is much that we can ...
RICHARD ATTIAS
Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long r... VIRGINIA FOXX Obesity is a significant problem in people and animals.
DR. GREGORY OGILVIE Flavor factories churn out chemical desire. We spray, squirt, and inject hundreds of millions of pou...
MARK SCHATZKER There's no Obesity in Spirituality.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequence... ANDREW LANSLEY
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childho...
TOM HARKIN Obesity is a very complex disease, and this metabolic pathway does not fully explain obesity, but it...
DEBORAH MUOIO I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think t...
MAX BAUCUS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... It's ironic that part of the solution to obesity might lie in sleep, the most sedentary of all human...
ANGELO TREMBLAY
An Asian way of eating and living may help prevent and even reverse the progression of coronary hear... DEAN ORNISH These findings suggest that developing ways to avoid holiday weight gain may be extremely important ...
DUANE ALEXANDER
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