Quotes for All
There are few women in America that don’t want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world – real obesity problems and real hunger problems – to worry that much about a few pounds that I’d like to … Read more
I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information. Evgeny Morozov
It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture. Erma Bombeck
There’s a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children. Eric Schlosser
The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there’s a growing realization across the country that we’ve got to change what we’re feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start. Eric Schlosser
Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive. Eminem
Obesity is a drain on the economy – we have to pay for the health care of fat people who are usually poor and can’t afford insurance. Obesity is, well, bad. Emily Levine
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation. Ellen Gustafson
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when … Read more
For over a half century now I’ve watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we’re ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed … Read more