The Prevention and the Treatment of Obesity

(April 27, 2010) John Morton and Thomas Robinson present two different perspectives on the issue of obesity in the United States. Their different occupations allows them to present different solutions to the problem that exists.

During the final quarter of the Stanford Mini Med School, some of the most timely and important topics in contemporary medicine and the biosciences are addressed.

Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program.

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• human health
• medicine
• science
• biology
• morbid obesity
• economy
• lifestyle
• body mass index
• high blood pressure
• cholesterol
• diabesity
• heart surgery
• diabetes
• eat
• sleep
• weight
• diet
• exercise
• calories
• nutrition
• social
• behavior
• physical activi

[Flusercom]

Good...

[grunder20]

live a healthy lifestyle and you'll have no worries

[MightyFire]

The best way to help the obesity problem is to make it socially ok to call people fat fucks and tell them to die early. Morons in the US are giving fat people so many benefits that theres no incentive to be fit

[MightyFire]

@rodeo179

implying you know anything about nutrition

[rodeo179]

@HigherPlanes - disagree. One should not overcook but cooking is beneficial in many cases as it may break molecular bonds and help with digestion. Also, meat contains some important protein but in veggies, those are in very insignificant amount. So, you would have to eat a LOT of mixed veggies to balance it. Meat has become problematic because of hormone usage in cattle and mixing dead animals in their feed. But don't eliminate meat, buy meat (Organic) without hormones, preservatives, etc.

[rodeo179]

a balanced diet is the answer. Atkins diet is moronic. A body needs carbs, protein, and fats (yes, both sat and unsaturated) to function properly. It's all about finding the balance and not overeating the recommended value. I would not get into the physiology aspect but once you acquaint yourself with digestive process and biochemistry of protein, enzyme, hormone synthesis etc, you will appreciate the importance of eating a balanced diet; and not just fad diet plans limited to proteins etc

[ZArFALKBEER]

Hi, nice conference, I'm interested to make some clinical research here in México about Obesity, I'm a medic from a University in the Durango state (4th state with higues prevalence od obesity, national) nearby Coahuila state (1ast national place) maybe we can share the data and compare with US, Please e-mail me if you are interested.

[HigherPlanes]

Without delving to deep into this, obesity in the USA is out of control particularly because of our diet. A few things to note: Raw food contains enzymes. Enzymes help digest food. Cooking food destroys enzymes. Eating food depleted of enzymes forces body to use it's own surplus enzymes to digest food instead of for cellular survival and function. Sugar, meat, flour = BAD. Raw foods, celery juice, carrot juice, coco juice, any kind of veg juice, nuts = Good.

[awaken69]

atkins seems to work because of the limited variety? are you all retaded at stanford or what? do you have any clue what you are talking about?? obviously not. with every stanford video i watch i lose more respect for this institution.. you are like 20-30 years behind, folks.

[martvaha]

Great video, thanks!