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ALISON FIELD I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhoo...
AARON SCHOCK Nearly one-third of children in America are either obese, overweight or at risk. This has been a pro...
ELIZABETH PIVONKA There's an epidemic with the number of overweight children.
KAREN TREMBLAY Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand a...
AMY SMITH We have a huge obesity problem -- 10 to 20 percent. It's an epidemic; it's only going to get worse i...
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MIKE ROUNDS![]()
California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the p...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER![]()
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How abou...
ALISON SWEENEY If it were as easy as telling parents to have their children eat healthier and exercise more, I don'...
DR. JULIE LUMENG Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals w...
LARRY MCCLEARY People who were obese in mid-life were 74 percent more likely to have dementia, while overweight peo...
DR RACHEL WHITMER Evidence shows us that there are more overweight children now and more overweight infants and toddle...
KEITH AYOOB If we can reduce (obesity) for a 10-year-old, their chance of being obese at 35 is lessened.
BONNIE HOPPEL The closer children are to their parents, the more likely they are to internalize the values and nor...
ASHLEY CROSSMAN The closer children are to their parents, the more likely they are to internalize the values and nor...
ASHLEY FENZL CROSSMAN I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and...
CYNTHIA OGDEN![]()
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.
ROBERT ATKINS What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f...
AVIVA MUST The continuing epidemic of obesity is a critical public health concern. As a nation, we need to resp...
JEFFREY KOPLAN I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childho...
TOM HARKIN![]()
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ...
ELLEN GUSTAFSON![]()
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL That's two-and-a-half times what it was just 20 years ago. Even more striking than that ... if you l...
EDWARD SONDIK Considering the fact that 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, this is a finding t...
JUDY CAMERON![]()
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our chil...
LEE HANEY The numbers are fluctuating up and down a bit each year, but the fact that the surveys consistently ...
COLLEEN WINTER We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT![]()
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY We were extremely successful in our loan production efforts in the fourth quarter, as annualized gro...
WILLIAM THOMAS![]()
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high chole...
RICHARD SIMMONS Reading some of the descriptions, it's just hard to figure out was that a 20-year-old guy who had se...
MARTI HARKNESS That was an emotional turnaround. It very easily could have been a 20-7 game, which is not an out of...
JIM TRESSEL There are far more satisfying explanations for epidemic obesity. We have more calories available per...
DR. DAVID L. KATZ![]()
Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's develop...
MARCIA FUDGE We found that obesity was associated with a threefold increase in SCD1 expression in obese muscle, a...
DEBORAH MUOIO Being overweight or obese makes you more likely to develop heart disease, cancers, diabetes, bone an...
DENIS MEDEIROS “Large is the New Slender - With our foods laden with sugar, and other poisons added; you call it ...
ALICIA FIELDINGS That's more than a doubling of the percent of people who are obese. This is of extraordinary signifi...
REED TUCKSON![]()
Talented, experienced leaders like these, who have stepped forward and committed to the critical tas...
ELI BROAD Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.
LARA TRIFILETTI If we don't get obesity under control with our children, we are going to continue to have more kids ...
ELIZABETH PIVONKA It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adu...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Statistics show that kids who are obese when they're 15-18 have a 75 percent chance of being an obes...
DARLA MARTIN This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity,...
LEAH WHIGHAM While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA There's certainly a danger in people thinking that chocolate is a health food. Chocolate is very cal...
BONNIE LIEBMAN Our study is one more piece of evidence that overweight and obesity do increase health risks, whethe...
LIJING YAN We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN At that point, North America will represent less than 20 percent of world capacity, down from 25 per...
CARLOS GOMES![]()
As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me...
PHILIP YANCEY Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recessio...
ANDY XIE We still cannot say whether the epidemic situation is better or worse this year, as the climax of th...
HOANG VAN NAM Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has mo...
JESSE WELLER Assisting more people in making better choices in more frequent situations is one way the obesity ep...
AILSA BIRCH Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue perfo...
DICK BROWN We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, .....
STEVEN BLAIR![]()
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though t...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ...
GREG MCBRIDE We can clearly conclude that adult overweight and obesity cause cancer, ... and increasing rates of ...
GRAHAM COLDITZ From my perspective 2005 was a pretty tough year. If you weren't in NAND flash, you probably felt mo...
DAVE RANHOFF We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
JEANNE KOHL-WELLES As population increases we are going to have to rely on our soil resources more and more. Because of...
MARC IMHOFF We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic....
DAVID HANSON Of course, we still have another weekend left. But, even if we have a big-time weekend, February wil...
JEFF HARPER For the parents of a girl who is not overweight and who gets her first period early, it doesn't mean...
AVIVA MUST![]()
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter liv...
RICHARD CARMONA We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG Based on our projections, yes we can. We still have the back door. We can still go in with the $10,0...
HOWARD IKEDA National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, b...
ELIZABETH NABEL In fiscal year 2006, we expect to spend in excess of $29 million on community benefits, which includ...
BRIAN GRIFFIN![]()
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ...
BANKSY We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence...
IMTIAZ AHMED We are going to have another good year next year, but my feeling is that the days of 15 to 20 percen...
BYRON WIEN More than 90 percent of the forest fires are provoked, either through negligence or by intention,
CRISTINA NARBONA Lately there has been an increase in childhood obesity and the government has taken an interest in p...
KAY PARMAIN When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE Given the epidemic of obesity in the population, it's important to know where best to intervene.
AVIVA MUST I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE I think as the reality soaks in, the result's not disappointing, but it's not up 20 percent either.
ANDREW GOODSALL I have never seen an increase like it. I don't think any stock market in the world has risen more th...
RAFAEL ALCANTARA This isn't about whether there will be development or no development. It's about what kind of world ...
ERIC STILES We are examining each of our product categories to determine how we can improve revenues, return gro...
CRAIG MCHUGH Nationally, more than 80 percent of sexual assaults included alcohol consumption by either the victi...
CHRIS LINDER More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.
BARBARA WALKER It is very serious for children because there is growing evidence of early onset diabetes in childre...
ANNA WALKER Failure to contain the present epidemic of obesity may accentuate the expected age-related increase ...
DR RACHEL WHITMER I would argue that using our software, all things being equal like in NASCAR, our software would giv...
PAUL BEMIS The centers have always been family-run. We all work with younger children.
HEATHER HUNTER Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with ...
JEFF FISHER![]()
We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, p...
ELIZABETH ESTY Either people have been really fast getting their children's names in and we've done a better job of...
KATHY GOECKE At that time, that was the biggest thing we had done with the band. As a 17-year-old, that definitel...
BRENT BROWN![]()
all my contact with obese people suggests to me they would feel happier, healthier, and have a much ...
ANN ROBINSON Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 per...
ALLAN MCARTOR Twenty-four percent, or 35 million, have participated in an online auction, either buying or selling...
AMANDA LENHART![]()
Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way,...
WALTER CRONKITE![]()
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... Ther...
RICHARD CARMONA
CYNTHIA OGDEN We have known that kids who are overweight or obese have a higher risk for being overweight or obese...
ALISON FIELD I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhoo...
AARON SCHOCK Nearly one-third of children in America are either obese, overweight or at risk. This has been a pro...
ELIZABETH PIVONKA There's an epidemic with the number of overweight children.
KAREN TREMBLAY Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand a...
AMY SMITH We have a huge obesity problem -- 10 to 20 percent. It's an epidemic; it's only going to get worse i...
HELEN SMITH Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of ...
MIKE ROUNDS
California is facing an obesity epidemic, ... And more and more, children are becoming part of the p... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How abou... ALISON SWEENEY If it were as easy as telling parents to have their children eat healthier and exercise more, I don'...
DR. JULIE LUMENG Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals w...
LARRY MCCLEARY People who were obese in mid-life were 74 percent more likely to have dementia, while overweight peo...
DR RACHEL WHITMER Evidence shows us that there are more overweight children now and more overweight infants and toddle...
KEITH AYOOB If we can reduce (obesity) for a 10-year-old, their chance of being obese at 35 is lessened.
BONNIE HOPPEL The closer children are to their parents, the more likely they are to internalize the values and nor...
ASHLEY CROSSMAN The closer children are to their parents, the more likely they are to internalize the values and nor...
ASHLEY FENZL CROSSMAN I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and...
CYNTHIA OGDEN
The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. ROBERT ATKINS What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f...
AVIVA MUST The continuing epidemic of obesity is a critical public health concern. As a nation, we need to resp...
JEFFREY KOPLAN I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childho...
TOM HARKIN
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ... ELLEN GUSTAFSON
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. JOHN POWELL That's two-and-a-half times what it was just 20 years ago. Even more striking than that ... if you l...
EDWARD SONDIK Considering the fact that 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, this is a finding t...
JUDY CAMERON
More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our chil... LEE HANEY The numbers are fluctuating up and down a bit each year, but the fact that the surveys consistently ...
COLLEEN WINTER We're working on the passing game. The backs are pretty quick. We'll have to throw a little more [th...
JOSH HILDEBRANDT
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th... S. JAY OLSHANSKY We were extremely successful in our loan production efforts in the fourth quarter, as annualized gro...
WILLIAM THOMAS
Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high chole... RICHARD SIMMONS Reading some of the descriptions, it's just hard to figure out was that a 20-year-old guy who had se...
MARTI HARKNESS That was an emotional turnaround. It very easily could have been a 20-7 game, which is not an out of...
JIM TRESSEL There are far more satisfying explanations for epidemic obesity. We have more calories available per...
DR. DAVID L. KATZ
Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's develop... MARCIA FUDGE We found that obesity was associated with a threefold increase in SCD1 expression in obese muscle, a...
DEBORAH MUOIO Being overweight or obese makes you more likely to develop heart disease, cancers, diabetes, bone an...
DENIS MEDEIROS “Large is the New Slender - With our foods laden with sugar, and other poisons added; you call it ...
ALICIA FIELDINGS That's more than a doubling of the percent of people who are obese. This is of extraordinary signifi...
REED TUCKSON
Talented, experienced leaders like these, who have stepped forward and committed to the critical tas... ELI BROAD Tipping the Scales. Neither is a suitable option.
LARA TRIFILETTI If we don't get obesity under control with our children, we are going to continue to have more kids ...
ELIZABETH PIVONKA It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adu...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Statistics show that kids who are obese when they're 15-18 have a 75 percent chance of being an obes...
DARLA MARTIN This is a novel concept as far as a cause for obesity. If these viruses are contributing to obesity,...
LEAH WHIGHAM While growth in sales of mobile devices are likely to slow, we expect TV sales to increase by more t...
EIICHI KATAYAMA There's certainly a danger in people thinking that chocolate is a health food. Chocolate is very cal...
BONNIE LIEBMAN Our study is one more piece of evidence that overweight and obesity do increase health risks, whethe...
LIJING YAN We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN At that point, North America will represent less than 20 percent of world capacity, down from 25 per...
CARLOS GOMES
As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me... PHILIP YANCEY Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recessio...
ANDY XIE We still cannot say whether the epidemic situation is better or worse this year, as the climax of th...
HOANG VAN NAM Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has mo...
JESSE WELLER Assisting more people in making better choices in more frequent situations is one way the obesity ep...
AILSA BIRCH Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue perfo...
DICK BROWN We have a public health problem of overweight and obesity, but it's been blown out of proportion, .....
STEVEN BLAIR
The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though t... EZEKIEL EMANUEL The fact is an ARM that you took a year ago could easily adjust to 6.5 percent or 7 percent percent ...
GREG MCBRIDE We can clearly conclude that adult overweight and obesity cause cancer, ... and increasing rates of ...
GRAHAM COLDITZ From my perspective 2005 was a pretty tough year. If you weren't in NAND flash, you probably felt mo...
DAVE RANHOFF We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
JEANNE KOHL-WELLES As population increases we are going to have to rely on our soil resources more and more. Because of...
MARC IMHOFF We still have too many students 12 to 17 who are drinking excessively but we don't have an epidemic....
DAVID HANSON Of course, we still have another weekend left. But, even if we have a big-time weekend, February wil...
JEFF HARPER For the parents of a girl who is not overweight and who gets her first period early, it doesn't mean...
AVIVA MUST
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter liv... RICHARD CARMONA We are seeing stronger growth for the semiconductor industry this year. They need new capital spendi...
FRANK WANG Based on our projections, yes we can. We still have the back door. We can still go in with the $10,0...
HOWARD IKEDA National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, b...
ELIZABETH NABEL In fiscal year 2006, we expect to spend in excess of $29 million on community benefits, which includ...
BRIAN GRIFFIN
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ... BANKSY We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence...
IMTIAZ AHMED We are going to have another good year next year, but my feeling is that the days of 15 to 20 percen...
BYRON WIEN More than 90 percent of the forest fires are provoked, either through negligence or by intention,
CRISTINA NARBONA Lately there has been an increase in childhood obesity and the government has taken an interest in p...
KAY PARMAIN When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE Given the epidemic of obesity in the population, it's important to know where best to intervene.
AVIVA MUST I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly ...
ERNEST CLINE I think as the reality soaks in, the result's not disappointing, but it's not up 20 percent either.
ANDREW GOODSALL I have never seen an increase like it. I don't think any stock market in the world has risen more th...
RAFAEL ALCANTARA This isn't about whether there will be development or no development. It's about what kind of world ...
ERIC STILES We are examining each of our product categories to determine how we can improve revenues, return gro...
CRAIG MCHUGH Nationally, more than 80 percent of sexual assaults included alcohol consumption by either the victi...
CHRIS LINDER More than 60 percent of low-income families have no books in their homes for children.
BARBARA WALKER It is very serious for children because there is growing evidence of early onset diabetes in childre...
ANNA WALKER Failure to contain the present epidemic of obesity may accentuate the expected age-related increase ...
DR RACHEL WHITMER I would argue that using our software, all things being equal like in NASCAR, our software would giv...
PAUL BEMIS The centers have always been family-run. We all work with younger children.
HEATHER HUNTER Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with ...
JEFF FISHER
We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, p... ELIZABETH ESTY Either people have been really fast getting their children's names in and we've done a better job of...
KATHY GOECKE At that time, that was the biggest thing we had done with the band. As a 17-year-old, that definitel...
BRENT BROWN
all my contact with obese people suggests to me they would feel happier, healthier, and have a much ... ANN ROBINSON Airbus has made a substantial commitment within the United States, where we procure more than 46 per...
ALLAN MCARTOR Twenty-four percent, or 35 million, have participated in an online auction, either buying or selling...
AMANDA LENHART
Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way,... WALTER CRONKITE
Overweight and obesity is the second leading cause of death, killing 300,000 people a year, ... Ther... RICHARD CARMONA
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