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America is in a difficult position right now. It has so much wealth, it has become obese and gluttonous. It will change but it has to get through this time now. It`s not that I wish I was not from America. It just goes through these peculiar times. I could live anywhere. But I wouldn`t want to abandon a country just because it`s being silly. I`ll do what we did in 1968, and try and change it and get some sense into it.

- Nick Nolte

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

- Star Jones

I am a smoker. I work for the DHHR, and I think that there are more pressing issues to deal with. Why don`t you stop diabetics from going to the (dessert) bars in restaurants or obese people from loading up their trays or Applebee`s from serving someone 15 drinks? I`ve never known someone to kill someone from smoking too much.

- Deborah Roberts

Becoming obese is a normal response to the American environment. If the environment continues to encourage high (food) intake and low activity, then we`ll all be overweight.

- James Hill

Let`s face it, in America today we don`t have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

- Tom Harkin

I hesitate to call it landmark. Other people have called it landmark ... but it is one of the first times that a jury has found in favor of a morbidly obese person based on disability and awarded significant compensation.

- Michael Ross

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

- Amber Chia

I think the more trails anywhere the better. This is an obese city, - and it`s not a street-friendly place, so riding a bike on the street is bad.

- Arlo Elkins

When you are obese, you are at a higher risk for diabetes.

- Barbara Lazear Ascher