We don’t walk. We overeat because we’ve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the ‘we’ is all of us. It’s not the government. It’s all of us doing this together. Mehmet Oz
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.
More than half of America is on a diet. We are programmed to eat and it’s tough to fight millions of years of evolution. Now we’re overweight ... A haven for fad diets and their slick sexy ads are everywhere ... Quick and easy answers on how to lose weight. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s1e11: Eat This, Showtime 2003
The so-called Hollywood Celebrity Diet! ibid.
Almost twenty-five thousand people a day die of hunger. ibid.
These Greenpeace dudes want us to believe that G E crops will ruin other crops and harm any animal or person that eats those foods. These extremists love to use bullshit propaganda ... It’s pretty easy to protest when you’re not hungry. ibid.
Norman Borlaug ... The greatest person that ever lived? At a time when doomsayers were hopping around saying that people were going to starve, Norman was working ... When he won the Noble Prize in 1970 they said he had saved a billion people ... Norman is the greatest human being. ibid.
All food is the product of technology ... Every food has been changed through selective breeding or grafting ... Why is anyone fighting food advance? ibid.
The obesity epidemic is ... bullshit! Penn & Teller, Bullshit: s5e1: Obesity
Mainstream media love words like epidemic. ibid.
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
Fat – it’s in all the food we love to eat. There’s nothing that tastes quite so good. Dr Saleyha Ahsan, The Truth About Fat, BBC 2015
Is it really as harmful as we believe? ibid.
When we eat fat what happens inside us? ... Living without fat will affect their body and mind in usual ways. ibid.
We’re hardwired to love fat. ibid.
The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous To Your Health. Professor Paul Campos, University of Colorado law
Obesity is now so rife that it has brought about an evolutionary change in the human body-shape. BBC News report, cited Horizon: Why Are Thin People Not Fat?
The full extent of Britain’s obesity crisis is revealed in a new government report. BBC News report, cited Horizon: Why Are Thin People Not Fat?
Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population – still live in hunger. Each year two million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. Jonathan Sacks
I’m not a flag-waver for obesity. It’s not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it. Jo Brand
A recent survey of North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Banksy
I always thought a low fat diet was the way to go ... The new public enemy number one – it’s sugar. Fiona Phillips, The Truth About Sugar, BBC 2015
You might be eating far more than you think. ibid.
Fifty litres of sugary drink a year. ibid.
Britain’s men are the most obese in Europe … Obesity-related illnesses cost the NHS in England at least £5.1 billion last year. Dispatches, The Secret Plan to Save Fat Britain, Channel 4 2016
In Britain we have a serious problem with our weight. More of us are getting heavier and suffering from ill health, but who’s to blame? The cost of obesity is now so great it threatens to bankrupt our NHS. But what if I were to tell you there is a treatment that can help tackle our obesity crisis: one we’re not using because of an anti-fat prejudice. A bias that may even extend to our health services meaning many patients aren’t getting the best available care. A prejudice that has made the problem worse for us all. Obesity: How Prejudiced is the NHS? BBC 2017
Weight-loss surgery can put Type 2 diabetes into remission, even before the patient has lost any weight. I can’t understand why we’re not doing more of these operations. ibid.
As a nation we’ve got a problem with our waistlines. The majority of us are overweight, and a third of us are obese. So what can we do to buck this trend? The Truth About Obesity, BBC 2018
We follow the trial of an injection that could cure obesity. ibid.
Obesity rates have tripled in my lifetime. ibid.
We tend to underestimate what we eat. ibid.
If I don’t have those obesity genes I suppose I don’t have much excuse to be the extra weight that I am, or do I? ibid.
Our bodies process the food we eat differently depending on the time of day … I’m not processing food as efficiently at night. 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.
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.
Tonight: Bulging Britain. How to stop your the yo-yo diet cycle. Is the government doing enough for the overweight? How long it takes to burn off the bad stuff … The UK is now the fattest nation in western Europe. Tonight: Eat Yourself Healthy, ITV 2018
One in four of us is now obese. ibid.
Could you dump sugar from your diet. The first hospital in the country to take sugar out of hospital food. What exactly does sugar do to our brain? … Here in the UK we are eating more refined sugar than ever. And as a result we have one of the highest rates of obesity in Europe. Tonight: Giving Up Sugar For Good? I ITV 2021