By 2001 obesity had doubled in women and trebled in men, and it was rising. ibid.
The food industry – they have one priority and that is making money. ibid.
The food industry: why are governments so scared? ibid.
Britain’s diet industry is big business worth an estimated £2 billion a year. Yet, as a nation, we keep getting fatter. So what’s going wrong? Tonight: To Diet or Not to Diet? ITV 2014
Over 80% of us won’t stay the course. ibid.
50 years ago ... back then the average person weighed about three stone less than they do today. ibid.
Is dieting really the answer to losing weight in 2018? Tonight: Diets, New Year, New You? ITV 2018
Almost half of all Brits have tried to lose weight in the last year. ibid.
Does dieting work at all? … ‘99% of people who go on a diet purely end up not only failing in that but usually rebounding later.’ ibid. Professor Tim Spector
Fat burning pills … ‘No effect whatsoever.’ ibid.
Bulging Britain: is the diet industry causing confusion? What advice should we follow? And how simple should it be to lose weight? … One in four Britons is now obese. Tonight: Fighting Fat: Back to Basics, ITV 2018
Which one [diet] do you choose? ibid.
The country’s big problem: as lockdown leaves its mark on our waistlines, how can we fight the flab and get the nation back on track? Tonight: Weight Loss: The War on Fat? ITV 2020
Obesity has been classified as a ticking timebomb with around two-thirds of adults in the UK now classified as overweight. But has lockdown made many of us pile on even more pounds? ibid.
This is what people don’t understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It’s not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It’s because kids – and this is the problem with school lunch right now – are getting sugar, fat, empty calories – lots of calories – but no nutrition. Tom Colicchio
I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone? George Orwell, Coming Up For Air, 1939
‘She’s beautiful,’ he murmured.
‘She’s a metre across the hips, easily,’ said Julia.
‘That is her style of beauty,’ said Winston. George Orwell, 1984
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean. John Clarke’s Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Fat is a feminist issue Susie Orbach, title of book 1978
There is now clear and emerging lines of evidence indicating that several factors can have long-term effects on obesity and degree of body fat throughout life, even when those effects occur in the womb. Dr David Allison, Alabama University at Birmingham
In 2004 Argentinian artist Nicola Constantino announced that she was selling sculptures made from her own body fat. More than 4lb or 2 kgs of her own fat, which had been removed during liposuction, were moulded into a pair of sculptures of the female body selling at $250 apiece. She also exhibited a range of soaps made from her fat. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, early last century, Diamond Kitty weighed 92 lb (42 kg) at just six months of age. She grew up to become a circus sideshow ‘fat lady’ and weighed more the 600. ibid.
Life, if you’re fat, is a minefield – you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up. Miriam Margolyes, cited Observer 9th June 1991
It is the parents who have to take responsibility for what their children eat. McDonald’s corporation
As a company over many years we have promoted a healthy active lifestyle. McDonald’s corporation
The assumption is that it is the inactivity that is the cause of the fatness. We’ve studied this very carefully and we cannot find that. But what we can find is the reverse: that the fatness through perhaps eating inappropriately reduces physical activity. Professor Terry Wilkin, EarlyBird Diabetes Study, Peninsula Medical School
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. Leviticus 7:23&24
It’s simple – if it jiggles, it's fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger
It’s OK to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. Roseanne Barr
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. Gloria Steinem
Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don’t starve, because I eat very much. Sophia Loren
I love fat people. Every fat person says it’s not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. Jesse Ventura
I read that book Fat is a Feminist Issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it. Jo Brand
If you’re a fat person – and especially if you're a woman – at all stages of your life you’ll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it – that defuses any tension. Jo Brand
I have big friends who won’t go swimming because they’re too embarrassed about it. I feel that’s such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing. Jo Brand
‘Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. J K Rowling
America has now become the fattest nation in the world. Congratulations. Nearly one hundred million Americans are today either overweight or obese. That’s more than 60% of all US adults. Morgan Spurlock, Supersize Me, 2004
People were suing the golden arches for selling them food most of us know isn’t good for you to begin with. Yet each day one in four Americans visits a fast food restaurant. ibid.
They’re everywhere ... even hospitals. ibid.
What would happen if I ate nothing for McDonald’s for thirty days straight? Would I suddenly be on the fast track to becoming an obese American? Would it be unreasonably dangerous? Let’s find out. I’m ready. Supersize me. ibid.
There are more Micky D’s in Manhattan than anywhere else in the world. This tiny little island is less than 13 miles long by 2 miles wide – 22.4 square miles – and packed into that area are 83 McDonald’s, nearly 4 per square mile. ibid.
22 minutes later: I’m dying. ibid.
The toxic environment is constant access to cheap fat-laden foods. ibid.
McDonald’s stated in their own defence that, ‘It is a matter of common knowledge that any processing that its foods undergo serve to make them more harmful than unprocessed foods’. ibid.
Only half the McDonald’s in Manhattan had the nutrition info posted on the wall. ibid.
Houston, Texas, the fattest city in America. ibid.
Apparently, we are not only the fattest nation in the world, but we were quickly becoming the stupidest. ibid.
Even the salads contain sugar. ibid.
In only thirty days of eating nothing but McDonald’s I gained twenty-four and a half pounds, my liver turned to fat, and my cholestrerol shot up sixty-five points. ibid.
Some people even eat it every day ... Don Gorske has eaten 19,852 Big Macs. ibid.