We should be leaders to our children going out and showing them. We should engage in exercise, and for many parents that means they should engage in daily exercise.

When you look at their health habits, they had plenty of sleep and they had just as much free time as those kids who found enough time to exercise.

If it were as easy as telling parents to have their children eat healthier and exercise more, I don't believe as many children would be overweight. We need to think together about the multitude of factors that increase a child's risk of overweight, and then target them one by one… The complexity of all of these issues speaks to the complexity of addressing the obesity epidemic.

The greatest hazard of exercise is not doing it.

Diet and exercise are key factors in preventing chronic diseases and delaying aging.

They listen and it makes them feel that I am not here for an exercise in conversion or political discussion. It's about the Islamic way of life.