{"quotes":[{"text":"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the 'luxury' of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["addiction","candy","fat","kitkats","obesity","overeating"],"id":393,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"When I was lecturing recently to a group of cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic I said...Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant. If someone's getting fatter I guarantee you they're taking more energy than they expend (as long as they're getting heavier). And if they're getting leaner I guarantee they're expending more than they're taking in. [It's] given, let's never discuss it again. And if you say it to your patients you're telling them nothing (University Of Colorado Medical School, May 9th 2013 - via YouTube).","author":"Gary Taubes","tags":["calories","cico","integration-of-sciences","obesity","physics","thermodynamics","why-we-get-fa"],"id":18267,"author_id":"Gary+Taubes"},{"text":"The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...","author":"James Minter","tags":["calories","donut","obesity","oscar-wilde","sugar"],"id":26438,"author_id":"James+Minter"},{"text":"Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. 'Welcome to America,' he said, 'where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.","author":"Ian McClellan","tags":["hot-girl-on-girl-action","obesity","zombie-obesity","zombies"],"id":40131,"author_id":"Ian+McClellan"},{"text":"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anorexia","anorexic","aphorism","aphorisms","appetite","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","body-mass-index","cheat-day","cheat-days","clean","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","dietician","dieticians","dietitian","dietitians","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","fat","fatty","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","health","healthy","hose","humor","humorous","humour","ingredient","ingredients","insightful","lean","lose-weight","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mud","muscles","muscular","necessary","necessity","obese","obesity","overeat","overeater","overeating","overweight","philosopher","pig","pigs","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","recipe","recipes","roll","rolling","salad","salads","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","skinny","south-africa","south-african","spotless","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight","watch-what-you-eat","weight","weight-loss","weight-to-height","weightlifter","weightlifting","workout"],"id":45938,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-necessities","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","epigram","epigrams","famine","fat","food","food-shortage","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","ironic","irony","made-me-think","make-you-think","malnutrition","maxim","maxims","nutrients","obese","obesity","overweight","paradox","paradoxical","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","puzzle","puzzling","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starvation","starve","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight"],"id":52275,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.","author":"Larry McCleary","tags":["food","food-politics","health","nutrition","obesity","supermarkets"],"id":54831,"author_id":"Larry+McCleary"},{"text":"Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come there be more than 50% death from heart and cancer disease alone in a developed nation such as USA?","author":"Subodh Gupta","tags":["cancer","diet","food","health","heart-disease","obesity","subodh-gupta","usa","weight-loss"],"id":58062,"author_id":"Subodh+Gupta"},{"text":"Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["control","food","image","impression","obesity","overweight","salad"],"id":87167,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the 'exercise explosion' and the 'new fitness revolution' have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?","author":"Gary Taubes","tags":["bodybuilding","capitalism","eat-less-exercise-more","exercise","fitness","obesity","the-70-s-and-80-s-are-bullshit","trends"],"id":87847,"author_id":"Gary+Taubes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}